THE Ministry of Health announced 21 new COVID-19 cases over the weekend.
Three of the cases were recorded Friday, while 15 cases were confirmed Thursday.
On Friday, the three cases were recorded in New Providence and another three on Saturday.
Thirteen of the cases Thursday were also in the capital, while one case each was recorded in Eleuthera and Andros.
Twenty-three people are in the hospital due to the disease - 19 are moderately ill and four are being treated in the Intensive Care Unit.
The death toll remains at 671 and 222 cases are active.
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HEALTH AND SCIENCE ‘Vaccinated, recovered or dead’: Germany gives stark winter warning to its people
Germany’s health minister issued a stark warning to the country’s public on Monday, telling them that vaccination was the key to their survival. Outgoing Chancellor Merkel has called on Germany’s federal states to decide upon tougher measures and another lockdown is a possibility. In this article
Germany’s health minister has issued a stark warning to the country’s public, telling citizens that vaccination was the key to their survival.
“Some would say this is cynical but probably by the end of this winter, pretty much everyone in Germany will be vaccinated, recovered or dead ... That’s the reality,” Jens Spahn told a press conference in Berlin on Monday.
Blaming “the very contagious delta variant” for the country’s rapid surge in infections, which is seen as its fourth wave of the pandemic, Spahn said “that is why we so urgently recommend vaccination.”
Germany is considering whether to implement stricter Covid-19 measures and even a partial lockdown like its neighbor, the Netherlands, as cases soar. On Monday, more than 30,000 new cases were recorded, according to the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases.
In the meantime, Germany has one of the lower vaccination rates in western Europe with 68% of its adult population fully vaccinated, but only 7% having received a booster shot. Boosters are needed as we know that the immunity offered by vaccines wanes after around six months.
Spahn told Germans not to be picky about which vaccine they wanted to receive, saying “some vaccinating physicians say BioNTech is the Mercedes of the vaccines and Moderna is the Rolls-Royce,” Deutsche Welle reported.
“There is enough vaccine for all upcoming vaccinations,” Spahn said. “And both vaccines work.”
Germany deploys both the Pfizer-BioNTech shot (BioNTech is a German company and Germans have tended to prefer this shot) as well as the Moderna vaccine, AstraZeneca-University of Oxford vaccine and the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) shot.
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, on the way to the presentation of the National Reserve Health Protection in the federal press conference on July 21, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, on the way to the presentation of the National Reserve Health Protection in the federal pre
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