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German minister Spahn: “The situation is as serious as never before”, but in the meantime he goes away ..

German Health Minister Jens Spahn , at the end of his term, urged the incoming government to take drastic measures after more than 76,000 new Covid infections were reported in one day. He said the situation was "most serious ever encountered during this pandemic." "The situation is dramatically serious," the CDU politician told reporters gathered in Berlin on Friday. "More serious than at any other time in this pandemic."

Calling the current situation in Germany a "national emergency," Spahn said the incoming government is doing too little and too late to try to stem the tide. "We have to stop this wave now," he warned. A nice way to shift responsibility to a government of which your party is not a member.

On Friday, the weekly incidence of Covid infections hit yet another new peak of 438 infections per 100,000 people, while the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) recorded a record 76,000 new infections in one day. In the worst-affected region of Saxony, the 7-day incidence recently exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.

Meanwhile, weekly hospitalizations have increased and now stand at 5.97 per 100,000 people nationwide. Covid's daily death toll hit 357 on Friday, bringing the total death toll since the start of the pandemic to 100,476.

Criticizing politicians who he said had underestimated the scale of the crisis, Spahn warned that the wave of Covid "will continue to move west and north" from the southern and eastern regions of Germany that have been severely affected so far. It seems to read the chronicles of the Black Plague, where the plague passed from city to city. Fortunately, we don't have the same consequences in terms of deaths!

In the short term, he said, there is only one thing that will make a decisive difference: " The number of contacts must be significantly reduced, otherwise (the measures) are useless ." So everyone home, shut up and repressed!

States should introduce consistent access rules that allow entry only to vaccinated and cured people who have a negative test on hand (a system known as 2G plus) and should consider canceling holiday celebrations and major events . Unfortunately, there is no answer on how to avoid contagions from already infected veccinati.

Appearing at the press conference alongside Spahn, RKI chairman Lothar Wieler also urged lawmakers to take decisive action to stem the spread of the virus.

"Now I expect policy makers to take all possible steps to jointly reduce the number of cases," he said, adding that contact restrictions should be reintroduced.

" With every contact we don't have, with every match we give up, with every crowd we avoid, we help slow the spread of the virus, " Wieler said.

He appealed to the Germans: " Please get vaccinated or get the booster vaccinations, and please also respect all the measures adopted in the federal states ". The same ones that, until now, have not served to stop the infections.

In the press conference on Friday morning, Spahn also expressed concern about the new "supervariant" (B.1.1.529) that has recently appeared in South Africa. “ The arrival of a new variant is the last thing we need now in our current situation .” As if Omicron hadn't been with us for a few months.

A speech that is a mixture of demonstration of helplessness and the desire to unload the money to one's successor. What does the quasi-ex minister want? A generalized lockdown? Last year didn't help much, shall we repeat this year?


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/il-ministro-tedesco-spahn-la-situazione-e-grave-come-mai-prima-ma-intanto-se-ne-va/ on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:58:41 +0000.