Berlin: The number of new Covid-19 infections in Germany exceeded 2,00,000 in a day for the first time on Thursday, hitting staff at the company including Lufthansa Cargo.
The Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases reported 203,136 positive tests in the last 24 hours, 69,600 cases more than the same day a week ago.
The incidence of seven days per 100,000 people rose to 1,017 from 941 days earlier, while 188 people died, brought the dead since the start of Pandemi at the beginning of 2020 to 117,314.
Uwe Janssens, a member of the Emergency Council Association Board and intensive care doctor, told Reuters that hospitals today were not too burdensome, but it could change in the coming weeks.
He warned that if the number of daily infections rose above 300,000 then there might be a problem for German critical infrastructure.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach estimates that everyday cases can exceed 400,000 in mid-February.
The Lufthansa Cargo Arm Airlines said that a staffing crisis in the hub in Frankfurt means that currently it cannot handle the sort of free shipping from the United States, Canada and Europe.
“Apart from comprehensive preventative measures, we now clearly feel the amount of increased infection,” Lufthansa Cargo told Reuters on Thursday, adding that up to 15% of the cargo in Frankfurt was influenced by delays.
It is said that the flight schedule is not affected, such as transportation of time sensitive items such as organ transplants or cargo controlled by temperature.
DHL rivals said the operation in Frankfurt and Leipzig was still running smoothly.
The Federation of German hospitals has warned earlier this week that three-quarters of hospitals reported a higher number of staff than usually on sick leave.
The members of the German parliament were debated on Wednesday whether to wear a compulsory Covid-19 shot, while the protesters gathered outside the parliament building.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz supports mandatory vaccines for more than 18 but the government of his coalition is divided into this issue and he has told parliamentary members to choose according to their conscience.
Many parliamentarians, including some of the Junior Coalition partners, Liberal Democrats, opposed mandatory vaccines, for this reason violating the second article of the German constitution which guarantees the control of their own citizens.