Coronavirus: Angela Merkel’s harsh speech on Covid deaths in Germany

With a harsh and emotional speech, Angela Merkel He asked the Berlin Parliament on Wednesday for a tightening of measures to fight the coronavirus before Christmas, due to the increase in infections and the growth in deaths from the disease.

In a fiery message, the German Chancellor almost begged for more care to be stepped up within a week before coming into contact with the elderly during the holidays.

“While it is difficult and I know how much love setting up the mulled wine and waffle stalls is, it is not consistent with the deal we made to buy only food to eat at home “, said before the legislature.

He added: “I’m sorry. I’m sorry from the bottom of my heart, but if the price to pay is 590 deaths per day, in my opinion this is unacceptable“.

Merkel noted that “scientists are practically begging to cut back on contact for a week before seeing grandparents and the elderly at Christmas.”

“All I’m saying is if we have too much contact now, the days before Christmas and It ends up being the last Christmas with our grandparents, so we will have done something wrong»He insisted vehemently.

For Merkel, “the number of contacts is too high, the reduction of contacts is not enough”.

The Chancellor stressed that the number of infections must be prevented from growing exponentially again. “The objective is not to count by the number of days of the restrictions, but by the results, otherwise the pandemic It will get out of hand over and over again, ”he said.

The aim of the German executive this is reduce infections to 50 cases per 100,000 population in seven days.

Currently the seven-day incidence in Germany is 149 and does not meet the target of 50 cases in any of the 16 federal states, according to the rRobert Koch Institute daily report, the government entity responsible for infectious disease control.

The German Chancellor explicitly supported the recommendations of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences of this Tuesday, in which He offered to take advantage of the end of the year celebrations for strict confinement of the population at home until January 10.

Merkel said politicians would do well to “take seriously what science really says”.