What Angela Merkel said about the pandemic: Alberto F …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, acknowledged this Friday that the third wave of the pandemic has “firmly gripped” his country and pleaded for this to apply new restrictions, including the night curfew. He also pointed out that fthe rents to the coronavirus are not worth the “half-measures” because “it does not negotiate”. “The hesitation is unnecessary,” he said.

Merkel made the statements when she spoke in the Bundestag during the first reading of the legal reform approved this week by the Council of Ministers to limit the ability of federal states to act in the fight against the pandemic and to impose uniform restrictions on from certain levels. Cumulative impact.

“We must do everything to stop and break the third wave”added the Chancellor. In his presentation to the lower house, he stressed that these new measures are late, but that they are necessary and justified, although they significantly affect the freedoms of citizens.

“The situation is serious, very serious,” warned the head of the German government, who asked to respond to “emergency calls” from health workers. “If after thirteen months of the pandemic we have learned a lesson, it is this: the virus does not forgive any hesitation which makes it more difficult; the virus does not forgive any hesitation, it makes it last longer; You cannot negotiate with him, he only understands one language: that of determination“, he underlined.

The Chancellor devoted part of her speech to the defense of the curfew, one of the most controversial measures of this government bill, and that according to its current formulation would prohibit leaving the home between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. in areas that exceed the cumulative incidence in seven days of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Merkel said that the curfew “not a new invention”. He claimed that it had been applied at different times in countries such as the UK, France, Portugal and the Netherlands, and that it helped reduce the mobility of people, a proven way to limit the spread of the virus.

“This is not the solution for everything,” admitted the Chancellor, who, while acknowledging that a curfew infringes on human rights, assured that it outweighed the disadvantages of the advantages.

Germany has recorded 25,831 new cases of coronavirus and 247 deaths in the past 24 hours. The most populous country in the European Union thus adds a total of 3,099,273 confirmed cases and 79,628 deaths with or by covid-19.

The cumulative seven-day incidence nationwide was 160.1 cases per 100,000 population.

Vaccinated with the first dose of AstraZeneca

In addition to exhibiting in front of the Bundestag Merkel has been vaccinated this Friday with the first dose of the vaccine from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca against covid-19.

“I am happy to have received my first dose of AstraZeneca today,” said the German Chancellor, quoted in a tweet from German government spokeswoman Steffen Seibert, who also showed the vaccination certificate. “Getting vaccinated is the key to getting out of the pandemic”, underlined the president.

“I thank everyone involved in the vaccination campaign and everyone who is vaccinated,” Merkel added in this tweet.

The 66-year-old chancellor belongs to the age group of people eligible for the Swedish-British vaccine, the use of which was temporarily suspended in mid-March and restricted use in Germany for people over 60 due to rare cases of thrombosis detected. in Europe.