( Comprehensive Report from Berlin on the 18th Sept 2020 ) The rebound of the German crown disease epidemic continues. Epidemic data released by the Robert Koch Institute of the Federal Agency for Disease Control in Germany on Thursday showed that 2,194 people were newly diagnosed with the coronavirus that day, a record high since the epidemic stabilized in April this year.
In addition, in response to the rebound of the epidemic in some EU countries, Germany has listed certain areas in France, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries as high-risk areas. People returning to Germany from the relevant areas need to isolate themselves at home for 14 days.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 6 p.m. local time on Thursday, a total of 267,304 people have been diagnosed, 237,311 people have been cured, and 9,538 people have died in Germany.
It is worth noting that, in addition to a new high in a single day, 10,542 new cases were added in the past week (September 10-16), which also returned to the level of April this year.
Drosten, a famous German virologist and director of the Institute of Virology at the Charité School of Medicine in Berlin, said on the same day that the German epidemic is now in an "rising stage" again. He pointed out that, unlike the imported cases that returned to Germany in August, the newly confirmed cases originated from infections in Germany, indicating that there may be clusters of infected people in Germany that have not yet been identified.
Recently, the epidemic situation in many EU countries has also rebounded. Among them, France has exceeded 10,000 new diagnoses in a single day. To this end, the Robert Koch Institute updated its published list of "high-risk areas", adding the French region of Upper France, the overseas province of Reunion, the Austrian state of Vienna, and the North Holland including the Dutch capital Amsterdam. , The two provinces of South Holland. In addition, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is also listed as a high-risk area.
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