‘Vaccinated, cured, or dead’: Germany sounds alert over Delta variant amid Covid surge

Health Minister Jens Spahn urged more citizens to get jabbed as Germany records rise in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, with hospitals sounding the alarm about overflowing intensive care units.

Most Germans will be "vaccinated, cured or dead" from Covid-19 in a few months, Health Minister Jens Spahn warned Monday as he urged more citizens to get jabbed.

"Probably by the end of this winter, as is sometimes cynically said, pretty much everyone in Germany will be vaccinated, cured or dead," Spahn said, blaming "the very contagious Delta variant".