Germany has recorded a high number of coronavirus infections, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday.
In the past 24 hours, 262,752 people were confirmed with COVID-19. That number was 210,673 a week ago.
Experts said the number of cases could be even higher, as many German test facilities were operating at limited capacity.
The RKI, Germany’s public health agency for infectious diseases, said 259 people died in Germany from COVID-19 on Wednesday.
The seven-day average of the number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 people also rose to 1,388.5, RKI reported. This marks an increase from 1,319 on Wednesday.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 16.5 million people in Germany have been infected with the coronavirus and 125,023 people in the country have died from the virus.
sms / mmc (DPA, Reuters)
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