Frankfurt (AFP)
Increasing for several weeks, the incidence rate stood at 100.0 per 100,000 inhabitants in the country on Saturday, according to the Robert Koch health watch institute.
Eight days ago it was still 68.7.
This indicator thus found more or less the level known on May 13, when it displayed the value 104, falling the next day to 97.
The German government said it was vigilant on Friday in the face of the recent rise in the number of new cases of Covid-19 in the country, in all age groups, warning that the situation was likely to worsen as it approached. winter.
The number of deaths in Germany linked to a Covid-19 infection increased by 86 cases on Saturday to reach 95,077 since the start of the pandemic.
The health watch institute also counted 15,145 new infections in one day, up 31% over eight days.
Since the start of the pandemic, at least 4,452,425 people have been infected with the virus and 95,077 have died from it.
According to official figures, 66.1% of the population is fully vaccinated and nearly 70% have received a first injection.
The German Association of Occupational Physicians, however, estimates that around 1.5 million vaccinations have not been reported, Anette Wahl-Wachendorf, vice-president of the association, told the RND editorial network on Saturday.
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