The incidence of infection rose to 145.1 per 100,000 population in seven days, from 100.00 a week ago.
Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “alarmed” by the resurgence of the covid-19 pandemic in Germany, warning against “some nonchalance”, in an interview published on Saturday.
Current developments in hospitals and the number of deaths “worry me a lot (…) It should concern us all,” the chancellor told the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Defending the absence of a vaccination obligation in force in the country, he declared “very sad” that “two to three million Germans over 60 years of age have not yet been vaccinated. This could be detrimental to these people and to society in general, ”said Merkel, who will leave office at the end of 2020 after 16 years in power.
The cases of infection increased again in the country with the arrival of autumn. On Saturday, the Robert Koch Health Surveillance Institute (RKI) registered 21,543 new cases in 24 hours and 90 deaths.
The incidence of infection rose to 145.1 per 100,000 population in seven days, from 100.00 a week ago.
According to the RKI, 55.5 million Germans are fully immunized against the virus, or 66.7% of the population.
Several health professionals have reported in recent days a new influx of coronavirus patients in hospitals. The vast majority are unvaccinated people.
According to the president of the German hospital company, Gerald Gass, hospitalizations of patients with covid-19 have increased 40% in a week. In intensive care, the increase is 15%.
“If the evolution continues, we will soon have 3,000 patients in intensive care,” he recently warned in an interview with the regional newspaper group Redaktionsnetzwerks Deutschland, and this will lead to “restrictions on the normal functioning” of certain entities, such as the postponement of scheduled operations. Gass said.
According to a Forsa survey commissioned by the Health Ministry, published on Thursday, convincing those reluctant to the vaccine is not easy. 65% of the unvaccinated people interviewed said that “in no case” they wanted to receive it and 23% stated that they “were not willing.”
Finally 89% of unvaccinated respondents said that the risk of saturation of the intensive care service in hospitals did not influence their willingness to be vaccinated. (I)
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