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Germany Dealing With Deteriorating COVID-19 Situation, Health Minister Says
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A few days after German ministers have announced plans to relax COVID-19 regulations The Health Minister for Germany, Karl Lauterbach, stated that the country was in a difficult situation.
Lauterbach said that the nation has seen a record number of cases this week, indicating authorities to consider easing up on measures, Theactualizar reports.
In a report by Deutsche Welle, the minister stated in the weekly press briefing that the number of cases of infection has increased significantly, and he called the situation critical. In light of the large death toll, Lauterbach said that the nation must take the appropriate steps as more people are likely to die in the coming weeks if the rate of cases continues to follow the same pattern.
The German organization that is responsible for preventing and controlling disease that is the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has announced the fact that Germany has registered 198,888 brand new Coronavirus-related cases just today, on the 14th of March. In terms of the seven-day prevalence number, RKI shows that Germany has registered more than 1,585.400 new cases of the disease in the last week.
In addition, in relation to vaccine rates, the information obtained from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) indicates that 90.4 percent of the adult population of Germany has received their primary vaccination. Additionally, the data report shows that 68.7 percent have received an additional dose.
The German authorities had previously announced that they would slowly remove most of the national COVID-19-related restrictions before March 20.
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