5 hours agoWarning Merkel: The worst is expected to come, the next most difficult week
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The total number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in Germany exceeded the 40,000 threshold today, announced the Institute for Public Health “Robbert Koch” (RKI), while Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the coming weeks would be the most difficult phase of pandemic. Next “weeks will be the hardest phase of pandemic until [...]
The next “weeks will be the most difficult phase of pandemic so far, with many doctors and medical personnel working in their maximum capacity”, she said, ATS.
Germany, the most populated country in the European Union, is trying to contain pandemic.
It was hit hard by the second wave of the virus after being spared relatively, compared to many other European countries, during the first wave.
The country has just extended and strengthened the partial deadlock by 31 January and is urging citizens to further reduce their contacts.
More than 5,000 patients COVID-19 are currently in intensive care, and more than 80% of beds in intensive care units are busy.
According to RKI, Germany has recorded 465 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the total from the beginning of the pandemic to 40 343.
More than 1.9 million have been infected so far, with nearly 17,000 new cases recorded since Saturday.
