Germany's Robert Koch Institute for disease control on Wednesday reported 446 COVID-19 deaths in the previous 24 hours - the highest daily figure since February 18. Vaccinations has risen sharply in recent days, it still falls well short of that threshold at an average of 660,000. "The situation is really increasingly tight," he said.ĭIVI has called for at least 1 million vaccinations, including boosters, to be administered daily. Marx said the situation was "particularly threatening" because there are about 4,000 fewer intensive care beds fewer than were available a year ago. "We need to save the clinics from collapse." "The situation is really becoming increasingly tight," DIVI chief Gernot Marx told ZDF television, urging a temporary lockdown. Marx said more than 2,300 new patients had been admitted to intensive care units in the last week alone. What are doctors saying?ĭIVI President Gernot Marx predicted that more than 6,000 patients with COVID-19 would need intensive care treatment before Christmas and that the all-time high from last year would be exceeded.
The warning comes as Germany records its highest daily death toll since last winter. The president of Germany's DIVI association for intensive care on Wednesday warned that there could be 6,000 people in intensive care by Christmas regardless of what measures are implemented.
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