mark is zada, the leader of the state of bavaria. he's been expressing serious concern about the number of hospital admissions that we've had across germany, saying that the health care system is really creaking to its breaking point. fact is, the fact is that the hospitals are full, they are the limits, both in terms of the workload and the emotional situation. that is why it's important that we act. now. we've also heard from yen spahn, the german health minister of interim health minister. we still don't have a new government exactly yet. begins spawn has said the free coven tests will be reintroduced. now they would turn away with a little while ago. and once they were gotten rid of, we saw the numbers start to go up because it had been very easy for german to get to test. if you thought you may have any particular issues that was watered, almost every corner you go in, you get it done. it was done in around 1015 minutes, they were then taken away. you could still get test done, but you had to pay for them. and we've seen numbers

now mark is zada, the leader of the states of bavaria. he's been expressing serious concern about the number of hospital admissions that we've had across germany, saying that the health care system is really creaking to its breaking point. fact is, the fact is that the hospitals are full. they are at their limits, both in terms of the workload and the emotional situation. that is why it's important that we act. now this isn't just a german issue though. we're also seeing situations in austria and the netherlands as well, where the governments, they're looking at imposing essentially locked downs on the own vaccinated hasn't been officially announced yet. but it is something that's been contemplated in both places, severely restricting the freedoms of those who cannot prove if they've been vaccinated, or in some cases that they've recovered from coven 19. now, in germany, the vaccination rates is around 67 percent. that's lower considerably than the 75 percent. that health experts have said. countries need to or populations need to meet in