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Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder assumes that the number of corona infections will continue to rise at the end of the holidays.
The number of unreported cases is probably relatively high, since fewer tests were carried out over Christmas and New Year's Eve, said the CSU chief on Tuesday evening after consultations with the federal and state governments in Berlin.
Returning travelers are not yet included in the current figures from the Robert Koch Institute.
“We have to assume that these numbers will grow,” emphasized Söder.
The German health authorities last reported 11,897 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 944 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
An interpretation of this data remains difficult because around Christmas and the turn of the year corona cases were discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay, according to the RKI.
According to the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM), the number of laboratory tests for the coronavirus fell again over the turn of the year compared to Christmas week.
Compared to the week before Christmas, the number has roughly halved in the past week.
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