Wieler, RKI President: “There are currently an estimated half a million active Covid-19 cases in our country. That is more than ever before. And with children between the ages of 5 and 14, the incidence is over 700 The number of school outbreaks is also increasing. It has long ceased to be a question of individual statements. The whole of Germany is one big outbreak. This is a national emergency. The deaths from Covid-19 are rising rapidly again. We are already getting there transmitted between 200 and 300 deaths for many days. That is the situation today and we expect it to worsen all over Germany. We just have to protect children and the elderly. Unfortunately, we have come to a point where we have a lot We can no longer prevent illness and suffering, but it is still largely in our own hands how bad this situation will be in the future and, above all, how long it will last h stops. We have to turn things around now. We really mustn’t waste any time. It’s like a tanker approaching a harbor wall. The tanker is on the move for now. If we immediately counter-steer with all our strength, then he will continue to drive for a while and perhaps still ram the harbor wall to the side. Hopefully he won’t tear it down frontally. We all can and must take countermeasures now. Vaccinations and the third vaccination, ladies and gentlemen, are of course extremely important. Vaccinated people are significantly less likely to develop symptoms of Covid-19 and they also have to go to hospital significantly less often. In our weekly report, which comes out every Thursday, yesterday, we published graphics for the different age groups that are very impressive. Here is a graphic that is 18 to 59 year olds. And you see the symptomatic patients with Covid-19 infections on the left and the hospitalized cases with Covid-19 infections on the right. The dashed line, ladies and gentlemen, the upper one, these are the unvaccinated. The bottom line are the vaccinated. You can clearly see the difference. The vaccinations are working very, very well. “
Source From: Stern
