More than 100,000 new infections in 24 hours and it’s not the peak yet! Germany will not reach its absolute peak until mid-February. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is now daring to make this forecast.
“I think we will reach the peak of the wave in mid-February, and then the number of cases could fall again, but we have not yet reached the peak,” said Lauterbach on the RTL TV station.
The minister assumes that “the current number of unreported cases should be around a factor of 2”. This would put the incidence significantly higher than the 553.2 reported on Tuesday. “We don’t know exactly whether there are a thousand, but we will get even higher numbers of cases.”
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections in the morning as 112,323. The nationwide seven-day incidence thus reached a new high of 584.4. The previous day the value was 553.2, a week ago it was 407.5.
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Lauterbach confirms yes to compulsory vaccination
Lauterbach considers it important that a general obligation to vaccinate against Corona comes into force quickly after a corresponding decision by the Bundestag.
The obligation to vaccinate must come quickly, said the SPD politician on “RTL Direkt”. “If we want to make an application that still works, then it is an application that puts vaccinations into effect – I don’t know – in April or around April, maybe in May.”
He justified this as follows: Unvaccinated people would then have to “go through three vaccination cycles (…) and by then it’s already in September or October”.
“Because it has to be done quickly so that I can avert the wave – and that’s the reason for the obligation to vaccinate – so that I can still avert the wave in autumn.”
The Bundestag wants to deal with a general obligation to vaccinate in January in a so-called orientation debate. Concrete applications could be discussed across factions in February or March. Currently, 72.8 percent of the total population in Germany are fully vaccinated against Corona, 47.6 percent have also received a booster vaccination.
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