Covid, full resuscitation in Germany. France: 30 thousand infections in 24 hours – Foreign

Rome, 23 November 2021 – The situation is increasingly critical Covid in Germany. The pandemic is sailing at over 45,000 cases a day, i dead add up by the hundreds, the incidence reaped record after record and intensive care, at least in some regions, is on the verge of collapse. The government is studying further restrictions, going today not to exclude the lockdown. And while the pressure on hospitals continues to grow in the Netherlands, so much so that it has begun to transfer Coronavirus patients to Germany, the United Statesmeanwhile, they urge Americans not to travel to the Teutonic country.

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But the situation remains critical across Europe. L’Austria, in the face of the wave of infections, anticipates the third dose at 4 months, while the France reaches i 30 thousand almost and the Slovakia does not rule out a possible lockdown three weeks. And so is theWHO to sound the alarm: it is probable that by March the threshold will be exceeded two million dead for Covid.

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The latest data register a new one record of the weekly incidence rate of infections in Germany. According to the Robert Koch Institute, today there are 399.8 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants, up from 312.4 yesterday. In the last 24 hours they have been detected 45,326 cases and 309 deaths, for a total of 5,430,911 infections and 99,433 deaths respectively from the beginning of the pandemic. “The situation in some German states is really dramatic,” says the German health minister, Jens Spahn, interviewed by the radio station DLF. “We cannot exclude any measure, including lockdown “he adds. And again: “There are many more patients and intensive care is full and this does not only concern patients with Covid-19”. Yesterday Spahn had issued shocking statements: “By winter everyone will be vaccinated, cured or dead.”
According to the numbers, 3,845 intensive care beds are occupied across the country. Currently i free seats in Berlin they are 8.1%, 8.8% in Saxony and 9.4% in Bavaria. “We have to transfer patients, the intensive care units are full – says Spahn -. Anyone who has a heart attack or an accident in these regions has a lot of difficulty in receiving good care”.

Meanwhile, the USA advise against travel to Germany and Denmark. For both countries the alert level has risen to 4 which means ‘do not travel’. For Berlin, the alert also concerns the attacks. “Terrorist groups continue to plan possible attacks in Germany,” the US warning reads, “terrorists can attack with little or no warning targeting tourist resorts, transportation hubs, markets and shopping malls, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, airports and other public areas “.

L’Netherlands began transfer patients affected by Coronavirus in Germany to try to relieve the pressure on hospitals, after the increase in cases and hospitalizations due to the fourth wave. One patient was transferred by ambulance from Rotterdam to Bochum this morning, and another will follow the same procedure in the afternoon, according to Dutch health authorities. Currently, the occupancy rate of Dutch hospitals is at its highest since May. The German hospitals offered 20 beds. Yesterday 470 of the 1,050 Dutch ICUs were occupied by Covid patients and hospitals are reducing normal care and treatments, such as heart operations and cancer-related interventions.

Delicate moment also in France, where yesterday the Positivity to Covid by Prime Minister Jean Castex who, however, had not seen President Macron since last Wednesday. As announced in the afternoon by the Minister of Slalute, Olivier Véran, they have been joined “thirty thousand cases in the last 24 hours. “According to the exact figures of Santé Publique France, published a few hours later, the balance of the last day is 30.454 new contaminations. That figure had not been touched since 11 August, when 30,920 cases were announced. “It is a very important increase in infections – commented Véran – the demonstration that we are, indeed, in a fifth epidemic wave”.

The weekly average – considering that Santé Publique only quantified 5,260 cases yesterday – exceeded 20,000 infections per day. The tace of incidence nationwide touched 191 almost per 100,000 inhabitants, while in hospitals there are 8,525 hospitalized for Covid, against 8,338 yesterday and 7,535 a week ago. Even the wards of intensive care are affected by the increase, with 1,455 serious cases against 1,406 yesterday and 1,277 last week. A total of 84 new deaths linked to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours has brought the total number of deaths in France since the beginning of the epidemic to 118,600.

L’Austria anticipates the booster to four months since the last dose. The national task force for vaccines has published this clarification given that – especially in Vienna – for some time in “exceptional cases” the recall had already been brought forward to four months. “There third dose – we now read – it can be administered from the fourth month, while it should be administered from the sixth month from the second. “As for Janssen, the recall must be done strictly by January 3, otherwise the Green pass expires.

I bishops Austrians, given the current pandemic situation in the country, asked a Pope Francis to postpone imminent again visit ‘ad limina’ of the Bishops’ Conference in Rome. “Since the situation in Austria is very tense due to the quarto lockdown, we Bishops now want to be with the people as a sign of solidarity in the country “, the president of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, Mgr Franz Lackner told Kathpress. A Vatican decision is expected shortly: the visit to the episcopate is scheduled for The current renunciation, the prelates explained, is “a sign of solidarity with all those who, as convalescents or vaccinated, currently have to do a lot to find together a way out of a potentially lethal pandemic” .

It does not rule out a possible three-week lockdown Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger who is “intensely” considering the hypothesis. In Slovakia infections are rising, the vaccination rate is below the EU average. Former Prime Minister Robert Fico publicly denounced the use of masks and participated in protests against the measures imposed to contain the infections.

“We can predict that there will be high or extreme pressure on hospital beds in 25 European countries and high or extreme pressure on intensive care units in 49 of the 53 countries between now and March 1, 2022.” It is the alarm raised by theWHO which provided that the total deaths will exceed 2.2 million by spring next year. To reverse this trend, explains the WHO, and to be able to “live with the virus”, it is necessary to take an approach “vaccine plus “, ie take the standard vaccines and the booster.

The good news comes fromAustralia, where the restrictions will be relaxed from December. Work is also being done to encourage the return of foreign students to the country and thus make up for the shortage of manpower. In South Korea face-to-face teaching is back, the first time since the start of the pandemic. Pupils will return to class in kindergarten, primary and secondary schools.