There are 11,040 new cases of Coronavirus positive recorded in the last 24 hours in Germany. The deaths amounted to 284. This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute, updating the total of infections recorded since the beginning of the pandemic to 3,614,095 and that of deaths to 86,665. The weekly incidence rate per 100 thousand inhabitants is 72.8 cases, less than the 79 of yesterday, the active cases are currently 187,000. The total number of people recovered from Covid-19 amounts to 3,340,400, 20,100 of which in the last 24 hours. On Monday, the Minister of Health Jens Spahn announced that starting from 7 June the vaccine will be administered to all sections of the population with no more priority groups.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that, despite having made progress with the vaccination campaign, Germany is still not out of danger. The trend is “positive and full of hope” but it is necessary to continue to be cautious, he said in a speech before the deputies of the parliamentary group of the CDU. The steps to reopen the country must be “well thought out”, specified Merkel, who on the 27th of this month will meet the leaders of the various lands to discuss the next categories of the population to be vaccinated and the European pass, citing the more aggressive variants of the covid , like the Indian one. So far 37.5 percent of Germans have received the first dose of the vaccine, and 11.5 percent two.