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The new type of coronavirus is spreading dramatically in Germany and the measures taken to stop the epidemic are insufficient, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a meeting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Monday, according to a report in the German daily. Bild.
The politician stressed in the online meeting that the epidemic could not be stopped, the number of new infections recorded per day doubled in seven days and local health agencies involved in detecting and breaking the infection chains could not bear the increasing load.
The situation is “extremely dynamic” and “dramatic”, Angela Merkel said in a report on Bild’s website, stressing that the increase in the number of cases must be stopped, otherwise a “difficult situation” could develop in care. medical.
He expressed it in a similar way in a Sunday meeting, also online, held with leaders of the CDU factions in the provincial legislatures.
As he said, Germany is facing “very, very difficult months”, so it is necessary to agree more effective measures with the provincial governments responsible for epidemiological control.“This cannot go on like this,” the chancellor said of the results of the epidemic efforts so far.
Angela Merkel also emphasized at Monday’s party leadership meeting that new and uniform measures should be developed at the national level at the next meeting with provincial heads of government scheduled for Friday.
Chancellor Helge Braun added that the defense was effective in the summer, but by the fall the situation had changed and the caution and concern of the population had diminished.
The minister warned that in this way the intensive care units would sooner or later fill up and it was necessary to reduce physical contacts between people at risk of contagion to regain control over the spread of the virus.
In addition to the decrease in concern about the coronavirus, there is also a rejection of restrictions to curb the epidemic in the population, sometimes in extreme ways. For example, at the end of the week an arson broke out in the building of the Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI) in Berlin. No one was injured and the material damage was not significant. At the same time, the case indicates that Germany is characterized not only by public support for around 80 percent of basic infectious hygiene standards, but also by a minority but radical rejection of precautionary measures and restrictions.
According to Monday’s data from RKI, there have been 8,685 infections in the last 24 hours, roughly double the 4,325 in the previous week. Along with the new cases, the pathogen was detected in 437,866 people. The number of deaths associated with the disease caused by the virus (Covid-19) increased by 24 in one day to 10,056. (MTI)
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