Germans will be 'vaccinated, recovered, or dead' by the end of the winter, the health minister warned amid a COVID-19 surge

The country's health minister has warned that Germans will bevaccinated, recovered or dead by the end of the winter.

The German minister for health said at a press conference that his prediction was highly likely.

On Monday, Germany recorded an average of 608 new cases per million, a sharp increase from the previous day's average of 161 new cases per million.

Unless people take good care in every situation, they will catch COVID-19.

According to two anonymous sources, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a party meeting that the country was in a "dramatic situation" and needed tougher COVID-19 measures. Germany's 16 federal states were told to decide stricter precautions by Wednesday.

Austria went into a nationwide lock down on Monday and plans to introduce vaccine mandates after a surge in COVID-19 cases.

According to the University, Germany has fully vaccination of its population with Pfizer's vaccine. The world average is 40%.

The director of the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn said that the situation in Germany was serious, but he didn't agree with Spahn that every German would come in contact with the virus by the end of winter.

If we don't get a higher rate of vaccinations, we will have it next winter and fall again. He said that they had to think about next year and prepare for the long-term.

According to Channel 4 News, the professor of epidemiology at the University of Applied Sciences said that the country was faced with vaccine skepticism.
Both Streeck and Reintjes warned against vaccine mandates.

After about six months, immunity waned. He said that it would mean a mandate to get vaccinations for a long time.

Streeck said that politicians had promised to avoid vaccine mandates so that it could be implemented at a time when trust was important.

Tens of thousands of Austrians attended an anti-lockdown protest in Vienna on Saturday. According to Our World in Data, Austria had 1,531 new cases on Monday.

JohnHopkins data shows that about 65% of Austrians are fully vaccine free.