What’s next in the coronavirus pandemic? RKI boss Lothar Wieler and Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach will appear in front of the press on Thursday.
Berlin – The coronavirus * situation in Germany is still explosive. It is true that the nationwide seven-day incidence fell again on Thursday compared to the previous day. However, the number of Covid-19 deaths has risen again. Within 24 hours, the new information from the Robert Koch Institute recorded 522 deaths. The day before, this value was 453.
Corona virus in Germany: Lauterbach and RKI boss Wieler give press conference
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and RKI boss Lothar Wieler will provide information on the current corona situation in Germany on Thursday. At a press conference scheduled for 3 p.m., Lauterbach and Wieler will answer questions in the capital’s press on vaccine supply and other Corona * topics.
The minister makes his first appearance in the new office before the federal press conference. Lauterbach announced on Tuesday that there was too little vaccine available at the beginning of next year according to the previous stocks and orders. On Wednesday, his ministry announced the order for an additional 92 million cans for 2022. The budget committee in the Bundestag released 2.2 billion euros for this. The press conference will also deal with the vaccinations for children between the ages of five and eleven that have started this week.
Coronavirus in Germany: Omikron variant worries experts
Presumably, the new Coronavirus mutation Omikron will also play a role at the press conference. Concern about the variant is growing – especially with a view to the developments in Great Britain * and Denmark. The Omikron variant does not yet determine the pandemic in Germany, but that could soon change, as epidemiologists fear. Experts are certain that the omicron wave will come *. Even the boosting is “no protection against an Omicron infection”, stressed the Frankfurt virologist Sandra Ciesek recently in a virtual press briefing from Science Media . For the virologist “the flags are on red”. A researcher from the Robert Koch Institute drew a comparison with the first coronavirus wave *. (mbr with dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
