The head of Germany’s doctors’ union said Tuesday the country is facing with a second wave of the coronavirus and risks squandering its early success by flouting social distancing rules.
“We are already in a second, shallow upswing”, Susanne Johna, president of the Marburger Bund union Germany, said, adding that there was a danger that the people’s longing to return to would fritter away the success the country had achieved so far.
Johna added that hospitals were prepared and would make intensive care beds available to coronavirus patients on a staggered basis.
The number of confirmed infections in Germany increased by 879 to 211,281, while the death toll rose by 8 to 9,156. As of Monday, there were 270 Covid-19 patients in intensive care, of whom 130 were being ventilated.
