BERLIN – Germany won't shut faculties and non-essential companies once more if the COVID-19 an infection fee rises once more later this 12 months however protecting masks would play a much bigger function, Chancellor Olaf Scholz informed broadcaster ARD on Sunday.
The an infection fee in Germany has been on the rise for the previous month, reaching near 700 new instances per 100,000 residents this week, after falling beneath 200 in late Might, however Scholz stated that vaccinations ought to assist restrict what measures will likely be wanted to curb the unfold of the virus.
“There shouldn't be faculty closures once more, and I additionally don’t assume that we'll want the form of lockdowns we had a number of instances within the final couple of years,” he informed ARD in an interview.
“However I consider that you may anticipate that masks will play a much bigger function once more within the autumn and winter than they do now,” he added.
Scholz, who has thus far not been contaminated with COVID-19, stated he would advocate that anybody over 60 years of age ought to search a fourth shot of COVID-19 vaccine, as he had.
“Perhaps the truth that I've been vaccinated 4 instances is the explanation that it (an an infection) hasn’t occurred,” he stated.
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