Omicron BA.2: Germany’s health minister on Friday urged his compatriots not to believe that the coronavirus pandemic is over as the country continues to see a steady rise in new cases. The minister warned the countrymen that it was still in a “critical” condition.
Officials are pointing to the spread of Omicron’s sub-variant BA.2 as a more infectious variant, which was reduced after the corona restrictions implemented in Germany were eased. On Friday, officials said there had been more than 250,000 new cases, with 249 deaths, in the past 24 hours after restrictions were eased.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach told reporters that we are in a situation that I want to mention seriously. He said that again the figures of corona cases are increasing strongly in our country. I keep reading that Omicron is a lighter variant and will last only to a limited extent, but it is not.
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He said that we cannot be satisfied with a situation in which 200 to 250 people are dying every day and there is a possibility that more people will die in a few weeks. The minister said that the situation is very bad. He said that the belief of some people that the country has left the pandemic behind is a wrong decision.
Germany is easing coronavirus restrictions and is due to lift most of them on March 20. The government has drawn up new rules that will require state governments to wear masks, test in certain situations, and then take additional measures in virus hot spots. Masks will be mandatory in long distance trains and flights.
Let us inform that apart from Germany, the part BA.2 of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is still present on a large scale, while the cases of corona virus infection have decreased in Britain. This variant of Omicron has been named ‘stealth variant’ by experts due to some genetic variation.
Experts in the UK’s ‘Real-time Assessment of Community Spread’ (React-1) study cautioned that the rate of infection with Omicron is still very high and the possibility of cases increasing among older adults may be cause for concern. Is.
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