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Status: 07/21/2021 5:39 a.m.
The RKI reported 2203 new infections in the morning. The seven-day incidence rose to 11.4. Before the Olympic Games, WHO chief Tedros says there is “no such thing as zero risk in life”. All developments in the live blog.
05:39 am
Teachers Association expects major restrictions in the new school year
The president of the teachers’ association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, expects major restrictions in the coming school year as a result of the corona pandemic. Meidinger expressed the fear in the daily newspaper “Die Welt” that hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren would have to be quarantined because of the particularly contagious Delta variant of the virus. “Nobody can rule out the possibility that we will get an enormous fourth wave because of the delta variant and the lack of vaccination quota, in which alternate lessons will be necessary again.”
04:37 am
RKI reports 2203 new infections – the incidence rises to 11.4
The Robert Koch Institute reported 2,203 new infections in the morning. That is 655 more than on Wednesday a week ago, when 1548 new infections were reported. The seven-day incidence continues to rise to 11.4 from 10.9 the previous day. The value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been infected with the corona virus in the past seven days. 19 other people died related to the virus. This increases the number of reported deaths to 91,416 within 24 hours. In total, more than 3.7 million corona tests have so far been positive in Germany.
04:37 am
WHO chief before the Olympics: “There is no zero risk in life”
The head of the World Health Organization has praised the Olympic organizers in Tokyo for their corona measures. “They did their best to make these Games as safe as possible,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as a guest speaker at the 138th session of the International Olympic Committee. The sign of success is “not zero cases”, but the quick detection and isolation of new infections and preventing the virus from spreading, said the Ethiopian. “There is no such thing as zero risk in life,” emphasized the WHO chief.