Health minister: Germany has crossed omicron peak
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Germany’s health minister says he thinks the country has crossed over the peak of new daily coronavirus cases involving the omicron variant
BERLIN -- Germany has crossed over the peak of new daily infections with the omicron variant of COVID-19, the country's health minister said on Thursday.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said government measures to curb infection numbers have been effective, but he warned against relaxing the public health rules too hastily.
“We are not really in safe waters,” he told reporters in Berlin.
Lauterbach, an epidemiologist by training, noted that as many as 12% of people over age 60 in Germany are still unvaccinated. That share is three to four times higher than that of unvaccinated, vulnerable population groups in comparable countries.
