Germany was once seen as the poster child of how to deal with the coronavirus. Now, it’s recording close to 50,000 new Covid cases a day.
Germany recorded more than 50,000 new Covid cases on Thursday, prompting a dire warning from one expert that the country could see a dramatic rise in fatalities.Medical staff take care of a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on April 28, 2021.Germany was once seen as a prime example of how to deal with the coronavirus.
Germany is in the midst of what has been described as a fourth wave of Covid, as the delta variant spreads as the weather gets colder. Thursday marks the fourth day in a row that it has posted a fresh daily high, Reuters noted, with the number of new cases coming in at 50,196., showed that Germany's total number of cases has now hit 4.89 million and that the number of fatalities stands at 97,198.
Leading German virologist Christian Drosten called for urgent action on Tuesday, warning that the country could witness as many as 100,000 more deaths from the virus if nothing was done to tackle the spread.Drosten said that 100,000 deaths was a "conservative estimate" and that "we have a real emergency situation at the moment" with millions of Germans still unvaccinated.
Covid vaccines have been clinically proven to greatly reduce the risk of severe infection, hospitalization and death caused by the virus, although vaccine immunity is known to wane after six months and
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