Germany Warns Giving Covid Free Rein Would Cost Too Many Lives
- Number of victims would be ‘too high,’ health minister says
- Germany has relatively large share of unvaccinated elderly
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Germany warned that letting Covid-19 spread uncontrollably would lead to otherwise avoidable deaths even if the omicron strain is less severe than previous variants of the virus.
“There is still no reason to sound the all-clear,” Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said on Friday in Berlin. If authorities give the virus free rein, “the number of victims that we would then be mourning is unknown and certainly would be too high.”