Coronavirus in Germany, the Koch Institute: “Vaccines are not for everyone.” Berlin infection registry

BERLIN – Berlin has recorded more infections today than any other day of the year: 706 cases in just 24 hours, more than in the darkest months of the pandemic. It should be noted that some could be the result of the ‘hole’ on Sunday, when many health offices remained closed and communicated the numbers on new infections at the end of the beginning of the week. But there is another piece of information that indicates that the German capital is becoming one of the most serious hot spots in Germany: since last Sunday, ten more patients have been hospitalized in intensive care. Severe cases reached a new peak of 49, the highest since May 27, when the capital’s intensive care wards treated 56 seriously ill people with Covid-19.

In one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the virus, Neukoelln, police found disturbing denial leaflets from a group of self-styled “Doctors for Information” warning of a supposed, imminent “obligation to vaccinate.” Merkel’s government, in a country afflicted by the no-vax phenomenon, which in recent months has taken to the streets side by side with various neo-Nazis and conspiracy theorists, has signaled more than once that there will never be an obligation to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. .

But for that preponderant portion of citizens who do not expect more than to be able to protect themselves from the pandemic with a vaccine, a cold shower has arrived. The Koch Institute (Rki), the government body that centralizes data on the coronavirus, has disappointed those who expected not in a winter, but at least in a less severe spring. The anti-covid vaccines expected from 2021, he said, will initially be distributed to the elderly and categories at risk, therefore not to the entire population. Rki’s strategic document is an invitation to citizens not to fool themselves with a quick return to normalcy.

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“In the treatment of Covid-19 we need regional and temporary containment measures adapted to the risk,” said the president of the Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, recalling that the priority, in the coming days, should be to avoid an overload of the health system. Tomorrow Angela Merkel will meet with the governors of the Land to try to find a square in the harlequin of rules that now characterizes the country due to the autonomous decisions of the Land on travel, accommodation and distancing rules.

Meanwhile, new daily infections in Germany remain above 4000; doubled in just one week. There were 4,122 on Tuesday, slightly less than the peak on Saturday, when more than 4,700 had emerged. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic amounted to 9,634 and 329,453 were infected.