The acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the residents of Germany for the last time and urged them to be vaccinated against coronavirus infection with any available vaccines, writes DW.
On Saturday, the last video podcast was published, in which the acting. German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the people of the country. According to her, the first video message took place 15 years ago on the eve of the World Cup in Germany. Subsequent appeals were devoted to issues of security, culture, energy reform and other topical issues.
Merkel stressed that this podcast was of particular importance to her precisely during the COVID-19 pandemic. And about. The chancellor added that Germany is currently in “a very serious situation, and in some parts of the country it can even be called dramatic.”
“We have the key [to overcome the pandemic] in the form of an effective and reliable vaccine. I urge you to take this insidious virus seriously. Get vaccinated! It doesn’t matter if it is the first vaccination or the booster one. Any vaccination helps, at least protecting against the severe course of the disease”, Merkel said.
As previously reported by News Front, Germany has recorded a record number of infections with coronavirus infection – 67 186 new cases. The number of deaths exceeded 440 people per day. The General Director of the Association of Accredited Medical Laboratories in Germany (ALM) Evangelos Kotsopoulos said that amid the next wave of coronavirus, medical laboratories have almost completely exhausted their resources.