Germany has registered this Saturday more than 55,800 infections and 268 deaths from coronavirus during the last 24 hours while maintaining relatively high weekly incidence levels, although clearly lower than the peak of recent weeks.
The Robert Koch Institute, the government body for the control of infectious diseases, has indicated through its website that during the last 24 hours there have been 55 thousand 889 positives, which brings the total figures since the start of the pandemic to 7,473 .884 and 113,900 deaths, respectively.
The figure represents a decrease compared to the peak of Thursday, when the 64 thousand positives were exceeded, the highest figure since the beginning of December and which was close to the record reported on November 26, 2021, when the 76 thousand positives were exceeded in 24 hours.
In addition, the agency has indicated that the incidence rate Accumulated during the last seven days is 335.9 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, above the approximately 300 of the day before, with 279 thousand 308 positives during the last week.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged German society on December 31 to join in the fight once morest the coronavirus pandemic and support the renewal his government plans for the country.
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