Germany, virologists sound the alarm: “The pandemic will only begin in earnest now.” Anti-Covid app has already been downloaded 18 million times

Slight decrease in daily infections in Germany, where, however, the health authorities the alarm sounds because what they argue is just the beginning of a Second wave of the coronavirus pandemic that will affect the European country. the Robert Koch Institute has registered 1,796 new cases and 13 victims in the last 24 hours, for a total of 275,927 sick people and 9,409 deaths since the virus began to spread in the country. “We have to change some things because the the pandemic will only start in earnest now. Here too ”, warns the virologist from Charité. Christian drosten, one of the leading voices on the German scientific scene. Meanwhile, the Berlin Foreign Minister, Heiko maas, was placed in fiduciary isolation as a precautionary measure after one of his personal protection officers tested positive for COVID-19. However, the first test the head of diplomacy underwent was negative.

Drosten warns the population about the future developments of the pandemic in the country: “We have not done things better than others so far, we have only reacted before,” explained the scientist, urging them to stop treating this issue in “ways of stadium”. “We were not successful because we have better health institutions than the French and better hospitals than the Italians,” but because we reacted earlier, he concluded.

Meanwhile it was downloaded 18 million times in 100 days the German app that the alarm sounds about a possible coronavirus infection, the “most successful in Europe”, according to the health minister Jens spahn. The warn app is available in six languages ​​(German, English, Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian and Polish), the most widely spoken in Germany, but a French and Russian version is still in the works. “More than 1.5 million test results have been reported through the app,” the minister said.

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