Berlin: The incidence of Covid-19 Germany surged to more than 150 for the first time since May on Monday, encouraging concerns from the fourth wave that was rampant when the country changed with changes in government.
The number of new infections per 100,000 people for the past seven days reached 154.8, according to the Health Agent Robert Koch Institute (RKI) – up from 110.1 a week ago.
Chancellor out Angela Merkel on Sundays asked for quick steps to overcome the “very worrying” trend, emphasizing that Germany was unable to wait until the new government was in place.
Merkel will go down when German leader after 16 years in power, with three parties today in talks to form the next government after the September election.
Veteran leaders also provide their support to the third “Booster” Jab, saying Germany “must do something” to ensure they are widely available.
But with only 66.7 percent of the population fully inoculated, about one third of Germany did not have Jab at all.
In the FORSA survey conducted for the Ministry of Health and published Thursday, 65 percent of respondents who were not vaccinated stated that their “impossible” would take Jab Covid and 23 percent “reluctant”.
At the same time, health professionals have reported the new entry of people infected with the hospital, mostly not vaccinated.
Merkel defended the right to be vaccinated in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday but claimed to be “very sad” that as many as three million Germany over 60 still did not have Jab.
Social Democrats Olaf Scholz, the possibility of the next chancellor, said the week that Germany had to do what was needed “to ensure that we maintain a control pandemic”.
However, he also said that in the country where a large number of people have been vaccinated, it is no longer possible to respond with strict steps such as locking.
The Scholz Party said it was aimed at having a new government in early December, leaving the country in a kind of political limbo when facing a surge in new cases.
Merkel will remain in power while but only as a caregiver of Chancellor.
Germany recorded 9,658 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours on Monday and 23 deaths, according to RKI.