Germany registers new peak and increases pressure on unvaccinated

The incidence in Germany registered a new maximum in twelve consecutive days while this Friday the upper house must ratify the new legal framework proposed by the probable future government coalition and Germany prepares to increase the pressure on the unvaccinated.

Thus, the cumulative incidence in seven days, which has been registering record figures for twelve days, stands at a new peak with 340.7 new infections with coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 336.9 yesterday, 263.7 a week ago and 75.1 a month ago .

Health authorities reported 52,970 new infections in one day and 201 deaths with or from COVID-19, while active cases stood at 561,400.

The federal government and the “countries“They agreed yesterday to caps on the hospitalization rate from which gradual and regional restrictions will be introduced, as claimed by the acting Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Thus, where the hospitalization rate exceeds 3 per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, only vaccinated or healed people will be able to access bars, restaurants, other closed public spaces and events.

If the index reaches 6, immunized persons must also present a negative test and if the threshold of 9 is exceeded, a closure of public life may even be decided.

The cumulative seven-day earnings rate in Germany currently stands at 5.30, with large regional differences.

Currently all the federal states exceed the threshold of 3, with the exception of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and the Saarland; Bavaria exceeds 6, and Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, 9.

Meanwhile, the occupancy in the ucis of patients with COVID-19 is 15.2% of beds available in critical care units for the adult population.

At the meeting of regional leaders with Merkel and her likely successor, the social democrat Olaf Scholz, they also agreed on mandatory vaccination for professionals who are in contact with vulnerable people.

Meanwhile, the Bundestag (lower house) approved yesterday with the votes of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals, the new legal framework prepared by this still virtual coalition to combat the pandemic and whose ratification in the upper house threatens to block the conservatives.

The deputies gave free rein to measures such as the obligation to present the COVID-19 certificate or a negative test of the day in the work environment and public transport, in addition to recommending teleworking.

With the reform of the law for the protection against infectious diseases they want to replace the so-called epidemic situation of national scope that allows “countries“Introduce restrictions without the approval of parliaments and that will expire next 25.