German Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach urged federated states to reintroduce this Friday mask use indoors Given the increase in the number of covid cases in recent weeks.
“We’re not going in a good direction” He said during the presentation of a campaign in Berlin to encourage citizens to get vaccinated and take other measures to prevent transmission.
He argued that it was better for the “Länder”, which already had such authority, to introduce less restrictive measures now rather than reorganize.then be tougher.
Current Infection Protection Act, regional levell Among other measures, it may be necessary to wear a mask or present a negative test to enter certain areas if the epidemiological situation so requires.
“We have no reason to assume that the coming wave will limit itself,” the minister said. The death toll is still rising as well as doing Occupancy rate of intensive care units.
Lauterbach also said: official statistics do not reflect the true extent of the infectious phenomenon, The total number of infections could be several times higher, as many citizens do not confirm their homes are positive with a PCR test.
760.1 cases per 100,000 people
“It’s probably right now We don’t have 100,000 new cases, But if we count them all, up to 400,000 cases,” he said.
According to data from the Robert Koch Institute for Virology (RKI), the seven-day cumulative incidence stands at 760.1 new cases per 100,000 people this Friday, In the last 24 hours, 114,198 new infections were detected and 165 deaths were recorded.
The campaign that Lauterbach presents today under the slogan “I protect myself” will be published in the media and on social networks. with the aim of improving the rate of vaccination especially among those over 60 years of age.
in it, 84 people -representing 84 million citizens in Turkey Germany– They will tell about their experiences with Covid, the reasons for getting vaccinated and the reasons for taking other precautions.
The German Hospitals Association sounded the alarm this week. the overload experienced by many hospital centers due to the large number of covid patients and multiple losses in their templates due to the same disease.