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Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - The number of registered new infections with the coronavirus in Saarland has risen by 222 within one day.

A total of 24,116 people in the state have been infected so far, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday in Saarbrücken (as of 4 p.m.).

The reported number of people who died from or with the virus rose by 8 to 679.

According to the ministry, 1,841 people are currently infected.

297 would be treated as inpatients, 87 of them in intensive care units.

The number of new infections in the past 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants was 113.0 nationwide.

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