an hour agoGermany with week-long infection record, Merkel urgent call
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(5 years ago)Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, through a video message Saturday, called on the independent to reconsider their decision, as the average weekly rate of infections in this country reached the record since the beginning of the pandemic. Hard weeks lie ahead of us and you can see I'm very worried. [...]
Hard weeks lie ahead of us and you can see I'm very worried. I urgently ask anyone who has not been vaccinated yet: please reconsider (the decision not to be vaccinated)”, said Mrs. Merkel.
The “has always helped us, when federal states and government have worked together and made the same rules”, the politician who is in its last days in power added.
The weekly rate of infections in Germany, which is the average number of Coronavirus infected people in 100,000 inhabitants per week, went to 277.4 on Saturday, the Institute's data “Robert Koch” showed. The record in the third wave of pandemic, in December last year, was 197.6, writes ReutersTransmission Express.
The federal government is expected to meet next week with regional leaders of 16 German states to discuss the rigging of restrictive measures, though the three parties that are holding talks on forming the new coalition government have agreed not to extend the emergency situation beyond November 25th. The emergency situation has been in effect since the beginning of the pandemic.
