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Germany reports over 150,000 COVID-19 cases

| @indiablooms | Apr 25, 2020, at 11:21 am

Berlin/Xinhua/UNI: Germany has reported 2,337 new infections of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with total cases reaching 150,383, according to data from disease control agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI) released on Friday.

The number of daily infections has dropped significantly compared with the over 6,000 at the height of pandemic in the country.

However, RKI Vice President Lars Schaade said that around 2,000 new cases per day was "still a lot," believing the single-day infections need to drop to a few hundreds before a further easing of measures could be considered.

"After two weeks, we will see positive or negative effects of the measures in the reporting figures at the earliest," said Schaade during a regular press conference of the institute.

The estimated number of people in Germany who have recovered from COVID-19 increased by around 3,500 within one day to 106,800 on Friday.

The number of deaths from the disease increased by 227 to 5,321 on Friday, resulting in a case fatality rate of COVID-19 in Germany at 3.54 percent.

According to RKI, the mortality in Germany is relatively low compared with some other European countries, but Schaade noted that data had not yet been collected throughout Germany.

"The fact that we have come through the crisis comparatively well in Germany is due to the measures we have taken," stressed Schaade but warned against a "landslide of further loosening," saying with more contacts there would also be more infections again.  

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