Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that new Coronavirus infections in Germany once again increased at alarming speed.
He appealed to residents who were reluctant to get vaccinations and urged compatriot more enthusiastic about Jab to help persuade others.
The level of German infection remains very low compared to several other European countries.
But it has continued to continue because of reducing 4.9 new weekly cases per 100,000 population on July 6.
Rise is triggered by a more contagious Delta variant, which is now dominant.
On Thursday, the infection rate reached 12.2.
The numbers increase with “worrying momentum,” Merkel said to reporters in Berlin.
“We have exponential growth.” He appealed to Germany to stick to the distance and rules that wore masks, but said that “we all know the key to overcoming a pandemic, the only way, is vaccination.” That, he said, would allow the country to handle higher cases in “fourth waves that rise” infection without burdening the health system.
A little more than 60 percent of German residents have received the first dose of vaccines on Thursday, while 48 percent are fully vaccinated.
But the vaccination rate has slowed in recent weeks even when new cases rose.
“We all want to return our normality,” said Merkel.
“But we will not get this normality alone, only as a community.
And for this, we need significantly more vaccine protection.” Every shot is a “small step” towards bringing life back to everyone and contributes to protecting people.
Dear people, he said, added: “My request to everyone who is sure to vaccinate, please help convince others.” The German government and many of their colleagues in the European Union 27 countries faced sharp criticism in the first months of this year when the EU vaccination drive dropped to a slower start than those in the UK, the United States and Israel.
Since making a lot of differences.
But Merkel clarified on Thursday that he considered a European approach to be justified, said that it was “really true” to order vaccines through the EU than Germany forward, and to allow significant European vaccine exports throughout the world.
“It distinguishes us and we can be proud of it,” he said.
“And if we look at it, therefore, we might be one or two months slower than many other countries that give anything at all, then I think this is all very good.” “Now we are at the point where we must beg.
To people to vaccinate so we can really overcome pandemics, “he said.