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Lauterbach – Germany has Omikron episodes “well under control”
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is of the opinion that Germany has so far had the consequences of the omicron wave “well under control”. Nevertheless, he expects that the number of new infections could rise to up to 400,000, said Lauterbach on Friday in Berlin. The main thing now is to protect the older unvaccinated people. There are comparatively many of them in Germany, four times as many as England and three times as many as Italy. “Omicron is considered a bit more harmless. Many are now of the opinion – wrongly – that the booster vaccination is not necessary. That doesn’t exactly play into our hands.” The President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, also pointed out the importance of the burden of disease in the current phase of the pandemic. “In the last seven days alone, around 890,000 people were infected in Germany. That’s almost one percent of the entire population. And that in just one week.” The very serious cases are relatively small, according to Wieler. However, the number of hospital admissions is increasing. Head for the peak of the wave. According to the intensive care doctor Christian Karagiannidis, the situation in the intensive care units in Germany is still “acceptable”. It can be observed that the number of Delta patients is decreasing. The member of the Federal Government’s Expert Council said that the number of new admissions to hospitals has been increasing slightly for seven to ten days.
Nevertheless, he expects that the number of new infections could rise to up to 400,000, said the Federal Minister of Health in Berlin.