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Case numbers have soared and Germany on Wednesday registered its highest rate of infection since the pandemic began, with almost 40,000 cases in a day. "We have to act right now," said Christian Drosten, who described a real emergency situation. Doctors in the intensive care Covid ward at Leipzig University Hospital warn this fourth wave could be the worst yet. One patient here, a woman in her 20s, has just given birth. Her baby is fine, but staff say they don't know whether she'll survive. This state of Saxony has the highest seven-day infection rate in Germany at 459 cases per 100,000 people. The national rate is 232. It also has the lowest take-up of vaccine: 57% of the population here have been vaccinated. There are 18 patients on the Covid ward. Just four were vaccinated. "It's very difficult to get staff motivated to treat patients now in this fourth wave," says Prof Sebastian Stehr, who heads the department. "A large part of the population still underestimates the problem." By now, Prof Sehr says, most people will know someone who's had Covid and should, therefore, be aware of the risk of infection. "Nevertheless," he adds, "we are still seeing so many patients who are not vaccinated." Germany's health minister has publicly blamed those people for the soaring cases, describing the current situation as a "pandemic of the unvaccinated". Coronavirus data in detail Scroll table to see more data *Deaths per 100,000 people Filter: [The world________________] (BUTTON) Country (BUTTON) Deaths (BUTTON) Death rate* (BUTTON) Total Cases (BUTTON) New Cases 0 10 100 1k 10k ** US 819,267 249.6 53,391,348 Brazil 619,095 293.3 22,269,031 India 480,860 35.2 34,822,040 Russia 301,791 209.0 10,299,923 Mexico 299,130 234.5 3,962,518 Peru 202,524 623.0 2,279,299 UK 148,089 221.6 12,559,926 Indonesia 144,088 53.2 4,262,540 Italy 137,091 227.4 5,854,428 Iran 131,527 158.6 6,190,762 Colombia 129,866 258.0 5,138,603 France 123,372 184.0 9,534,357 Argentina 117,111 260.6 5,556,239 Germany 111,607 134.3 7,129,353 Ukraine 101,847 229.5 3,840,041 Poland 96,415 253.9 4,094,608 South Africa 90,935 155.3 3,433,554 Spain 89,331 189.8 6,133,057 Turkey 82,059 98.4 9,404,053 Romania 58,677 303.1 1,805,726 Philippines 51,241 47.4 2,839,790 Hungary 39,104 400.2 1,253,055 Chile 39,063 206.1 1,802,891 Czech Republic 36,061 338.0 2,469,951 Ecuador 33,650 193.7 542,960 Vietnam 31,877 33.0 1,694,874 Malaysia 31,428 98.4 2,750,516 Bulgaria 30,819 441.8 740,682 Canada 30,307 80.6 2,111,107 Pakistan 28,921 13.4 1,294,861 Belgium 28,267 246.1 2,075,781 Bangladesh 28,063 17.2 1,584,518 Tunisia 25,556 218.5 724,680 Iraq 24,151 61.4 2,093,136 Egypt 21,695 21.6 383,857 Thailand 21,672 31.1 2,220,324 Netherlands 20,852 120.3 3,101,261 Greece 20,636 192.6 1,134,713 Bolivia 19,622 170.4 585,624 Myanmar 19,262 35.6 530,276 Portugal 18,921 184.2 1,330,158 Japan 18,389 14.6 1,731,441 Kazakhstan 18,211 98.4 1,071,515 Paraguay 16,616 235.9 465,824 Slovakia 16,554 303.5 1,363,478 Guatemala 16,102 97.0 626,675 Sweden 15,297 148.7 1,303,663 Sri Lanka 14,944 68.5 586,183 Morocco 14,842 40.7 959,098 Georgia 13,758 369.8 932,641 Austria 13,701 154.3 1,274,995 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13,397 405.8 289,676 Serbia 12,665 182.4 1,295,198 Croatia 12,466 306.5 703,720 Jordan 12,372 122.5 1,047,953 Switzerland 12,183 142.1 1,294,592 Nepal 11,590 40.5 827,972 Honduras 10,433 107.0 379,402 Moldova 9,667 363.7 375,358 Lebanon 9,087 132.5 719,103 Saudi Arabia 8,874 25.9 554,665 Azerbaijan 8,332 83.1 615,842 Cuba 8,321 73.4 965,243 Israel 8,243 91.0 1,376,916 Armenia 7,968 269.4 344,826 North Macedonia 7,935 380.9 224,134 Panama 7,425 174.9 491,043 Lithuania 7,373 264.6 517,655 Afghanistan 7,356 19.3 158,056 Costa Rica 7,353 145.7 570,556 Ethiopia 6,916 6.2 410,445 Algeria 6,263 14.5 217,647 Uruguay 6,168 178.2 410,311 Ireland 5,912 119.6 747,895 Libya 5,696 84.0 388,183 Slovenia 5,583 267.4 462,152 Belarus 5,543 58.6 696,220 South Korea 5,455 10.5 625,967 Kenya 5,372 10.2 288,951 Venezuela 5,321 18.7 444,186 Zimbabwe 4,967 33.9 209,655 Palestinian Territories 4,919 105.0 469,748 China 4,849 0.3 114,598 Latvia 4,561 238.4 275,517 Dominican Republic 4,246 39.5 416,270 Oman 4,116 82.7 305,489 El Salvador 3,821 59.2 121,741 Zambia 3,730 20.9 249,193 Namibia 3,616 145.0 146,720 Sudan 3,331 7.8 46,518 Uganda 3,291 7.4 139,079 Denmark 3,247 55.8 762,299 Albania 3,212 112.5 208,899 Nigeria 3,030 1.5 240,387 Cambodia 3,012 18.3 120,487 Kosovo 2,990 166.6 161,389 Syria 2,889 16.9 50,204 Trinidad and Tobago 2,825 202.5 90,829 Kyrgyzstan 2,800 43.4 184,633 Kuwait 2,468 58.7 416,077 Jamaica 2,464 83.6 92,950 Botswana 2,439 105.9 212,482 Montenegro 2,401 385.9 166,581 Malawi 2,350 12.6 73,238 Australia 2,224 8.8 361,327 United Arab Emirates 2,160 22.1 757,145 Mongolia 2,058 63.8 389,089 Mozambique 1,988 6.5 179,272 Yemen 1,984 6.8 10,125 Estonia 1,928 145.3 240,334 Senegal 1,890 11.6 74,672 Cameroon 1,851 7.2 109,367 Angola 1,760 5.5 78,475 Finland 1,554 28.2 248,958 Uzbekistan 1,485 4.4 198,769 Bahrain 1,394 84.9 280,876 Rwanda 1,349 10.7 109,070 Somalia 1,333 8.6 23,532 Norway 1,305 24.4 387,196 Eswatini 1,296 112.9 65,473 Ghana 1,287 4.2 141,295 DR Congo 1,205 1.4 74,793 Suriname 1,189 204.5 52,031 Guyana 1,051 134.3 39,238 Madagascar 1,027 3.8 50,279 Luxembourg 911 147.0 101,256 Mauritania 862 19.0 40,906 Taiwan 850 3.6 16,988 Guadeloupe 831 207.7 55,795 Singapore 826 14.5 278,750 Martinique 777 206.9 48,123 Haiti 766 6.8 25,985 Tanzania 737 1.3 29,306 Bahamas 716 183.8 24,269 Ivory Coast 708 2.8 66,568 Fiji 698 78.4 53,332 Lesotho 665 31.3 28,408 Mali 658 3.3 20,468 French Polynesia 636 227.7 46,382 Cyprus 635 53.0 157,928 Qatar 616 21.8 249,245 Belize 597 152.9 32,067 Papua New Guinea 590 6.7 36,137 Malta 476 94.7 49,717 Réunion 409 46.0 76,602 Guinea 389 3.0 31,412 Congo 367 6.8 20,089 Laos 360 5.0 110,054 Cape Verde 352 64.0 39,947 Gambia 342 14.6 10,136 French Guiana 338 116.2 47,631 Burkina Faso 318 1.6 17,632 Saint Lucia 295 161.4 13,473 Gabon 288 13.3 39,910 Liberia 287 5.8 6,278 New Caledonia 281 97.6 12,826 Niger 274 1.2 7,307 Maldives 262 49.3 95,420 Barbados 260 90.6 28,063 Togo 246 3.0 29,416 Mauritius 240 19.0 23,372 Nicaragua 217 3.3 17,487 Grenada 200 178.6 6,009 Djibouti 189 19.4 13,619 Curaçao 187 118.7 20,199 Mayotte 185 69.5 21,911 Aruba 181 170.3 19,021 Chad 181 1.1 5,703 Equatorial Guinea 175 12.9 13,637 Benin 161 1.4 24,935 Comoros 156 18.3 6,284 Guinea-Bissau 149 7.8 6,476 Andorra 140 181.5 22,823 South Sudan 135 1.2 15,152 Seychelles 134 137.3 24,546 Tajikistan 125 1.3 17,493 Sierra Leone 123 1.6 6,891 Timor-Leste 122 9.4 19,833 Antigua and Barbuda 118 121.5 4,259 Channel Islands 113 65.6 25,998 Bermuda 106 165.8 6,064 Central African Republic 101 2.1 12,163 Gibraltar 100 296.7 8,421 San Marino 99 292.4 7,808 Brunei 98 22.6 15,465 St Vincent and the Grenadines 81 73.2 5,850 Sint Maarten 75 184.1 5,054 Eritrea 74 2.1 7,948 Liechtenstein 69 181.5 6,131 Isle of Man 67 79.2 13,487 Sao Tome and Principe 57 26.5 3,819 Saint Martin 56 147.4 4,118 New Zealand 51 1.0 14,057 Dominica 45 62.7 6,559 British Virgin Islands 39 129.9 3,071 Burundi 38 0.3 27,366 Monaco 38 97.5 4,985 Iceland 37 10.2 27,059 Saint Kitts and Nevis 28 53.0 2,918 Turks and Caicos Islands 26 68.1 3,283 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 23 88.5 3,336 Faroe Islands 13 26.7 5,548 Cayman Islands 11 16.9 8,386 Wallis and Futuna Islands 7 61.2 454 Saint Barthelemy 6 60.9 1,726 Anguilla 5 33.6 1,674 Bhutan 3 0.4 2,660 Greenland 1 1.8 2,437 Montserrat 1 20.0 45 Vanuatu 1 0.3 7 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 0.0 98 Falkland Islands 0 0.0 83 Vatican 0 0.0 27 Solomon Islands 0 0.0 24 Palau 0 0.0 8 Saint Helena 0 0.0 4 Marshall Islands 0 0.0 4 Samoa 0 0.0 3 Kiribati 0 0.0 2 Cook Islands 0 0.0 2 Micronesia 0 0.0 1 Tonga 0 0.0 1 Please update your browser to see full interactive (BUTTON) Show more This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country. ** The past data for new cases is a three day rolling average. Due to revisions in the number of cases, an average cannot be calculated for this date. Source: Johns Hopkins University and national public health agencies Figures last updated: 30 December 2021, 15:56 GMT 1px transparent line At the start of this week, Saxony banned unvaccinated people from bars, restaurants, public events and sport and leisure facilities. At least several other states are expected to follow suit. Germany's anti-vaxxers are furious. Several thousand protested last weekend in Leipzig. "This is discrimination, and we want to express vehemently that we do not accept this in our society," said Leif Hansen, who represents anti-vax "Bewegung Leipzig" (Leipzig Movement). He doesn't trust the companies that made the vaccine or the authorities who approved it. "They say the vaccination is ok, that I should give it to my children? Never!" he told me. "I have a feeling that it should never go into my body, and I will fight all I can to prevent it coming into my body." Bewegung Leipzig Image caption, Anti-vaxxers out in force in the city of Leipzig, in Saxony: This eastern state has the lowest vaccine take-up rate in Germany Sixteen million Germans over the age of 12 have not been fully vaccinated. The German government has admitted it's unlikely to persuade many of those people now, and politicians worry that social divisions might deepen. What many fear is another lockdown. Nadine Herzog's bar in Leipzig barely survived the last one. She deftly prepares cocktails as she tells us that even before the authorities required it she and her co-owner banned unvaccinated drinkers. "My business is dying. My dreams came true and now they suffer from people who don't do logical things to prevent others from getting ill or dying and I'm so angry," she told the BBC. A long queue formed outside a vaccine centre in the city earlier in the week. Evidence, perhaps, that some have changed their minds. But Germany is also now rolling out booster jabs amid concerns about waning protection in those who have been vaccinated. On the intensive care Covid unit they fear the damage is done. Operations have already been cancelled, procedures postponed to make way for Covid patients. Doctors here told us that nearly half of the people who end up here will die. For Germany, which invented one of the world's first Covid vaccines, that is a source of great shame. 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