According to information from Thursday morning, the Robert Koch Institute received 203,136 new infections within one day, more than ever before. The seven-day incidence, i.e. the infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week, climbed to a record 1,017.4.
On January 27, 2020, the corona virus was confirmed in Germany for the first time in a man from Bavaria. Since then, more than nine million infections have been registered, and more than 117,000 have died from or were involved in an infection. Vaccinations against the coronavirus have been carried out since the end of December 2020. A good three quarters of the population have received at least one dose, slightly fewer have full basic protection and a good half have received a booster vaccination.
There is a heated debate as to whether there should also be a general obligation to vaccinate in Germany. In the Bundestag, the MPs discussed this on Wednesday in an “orientation debate” free of faction constraints. The German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach defended the vaccination requirement on Wednesday evening in the ZDF “heute journal” and emphasized that it was an ethical debate. That is why Lauterbach did not speak in Parliament as a minister, but as a member of parliament. Lauterbach does not consider a vaccination register to be necessary or a hindrance, as it would take too long to introduce it.
Source: Nachrichten
