Coronavirus will kill another one lakh people in the country: Germany’s Top Virologist

New Delhi: Amid rising coronavirus cases in some European countries, top virologist of Germany on Wednesday warned that a further 100,000 people will die from Covid-19 if nothing is done to halt an aggressive fourth wave.

The health department of Germany said that the country has registered more than 40000 new cases of infection in a single day, which is the highest rate of infection since the pandemic began.

A top virologist of Germany Christian Drosten described a real emergency situation said that “We have to act right now.” Doctors in the intensive care Covid ward at Leipzig University Hospital have warned that this fourth wave could be the worst yet. The state of Saxony has the highest seven-day infection rate in Germany at 459 cases per 100,000 people. The national rate is 232.

Germany’s Health Minister has publicly blamed those people for the soaring cases, describing the current situation as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.

At the start of this week, Saxony had banned unvaccinated people from bars, restaurants, public events, and sport and leisure facilities. At least several other states are expected to follow suit, the report said.

(_Vinayak)