Current winter wave - Lauterbach calls for coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas - and warns against infection
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has called on people with risk factors to get vaccinated in view of the higher coronavirus infection figures. The infection is not a cold, said the SPD politician in Berlin on Monday.
If you get vaccinated now, this is "the optimal time" for a full effect until Christmas, he explained with a view to older people aged 60 and over and the chronically ill. It is very disappointing that so far only three million people have had vaccinations with new preparations that are adapted to current coronavirus variants.
Lauterbach speaks of current wave of coronavirus infections
Lauterbach made it clear that a wave of infections can be identified from calculations based on available data. This should correspond to an incidence of 1700 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, he said after a round table on longer-lasting impairments after corona infections. The President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lars Schaade, explained that this level has a different meaning than during the pandemic in view of the higher basic immunity due to vaccinations and infections.
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- Regrettably, only three million people in Germany have undergone vaccinations with new preparations tailored to the current coronavirus variants, according to Lauterbach, who expressed his disappointment during his recent statement.
Source: www.stern.de
