Germany: 'Omicron will keep us busy for a long time to come' - Scholz

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz touted booster vaccine shots as the best defence against the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, saying the mutation will ‘keep us busy for a long time to come’ during a speech in Berlin, on Friday.

“We all know what helps: Besides the contact restrictions, which we still need to talk about, it’s about continuing to vaccinate and boost. The best protection against the omicron variant is booster vaccination,” said the German Chancellor who lauded both Moderna and BioNTech vaccines as viable options in fighting the variant.

The omicron variant of the COVID-19 has led to a big spike in cases worldwide. On Thursday, the country alone recorded 64,340 new coronavirus infections, according to the Robert Koch Institute. The COVID-related death toll is 113,368.

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SOT, Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor (German): “One thing is clear: the Omicron variant will keep us busy for a long time to come. That is why we cannot sound the all-clear for our health system. We will see - this must be said with all clarity - higher infection figures, and there will also be many new patients in the hospitals. Therefore, we have to prepare for this situation and we are doing so. We all know what helps: Besides the contact restrictions, which we still need to talk about, it’s about continuing to vaccinate and boost. The best protection against the omicron variant is booster vaccination. So it’s good that we have actually achieved the target we set ourselves last time, which was to reach 30 million vaccinations by Christmas. It is also good that we are working ambitiously on the next target, which is to organise the next 30 million booster vaccinations by the end of this month. All the vaccines we have today are helping and are good. This is especially true for the vaccine from Moderna and the one from BioNTech. Both are equally capable of protecting. We have a lot of them available, especially the Moderna vaccine. So I urge everyone to take this vaccine when it is available and get vaccinated accordingly. It helps against infection by the Omicron variant of the virus, and I think that is very, very important for all of us. Fresh vaccination still offers the best protection.”

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