According to the latest data released by the Robert Koch Institute of Federal Disease Control and Prevention and Prevention of Germany, as of 00:00 local time on January 6, a total of 1808,647 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Germany, 21,237 new cases compared with the previous day; the cumulative number of 36,537 deaths, an increase of 1,019 cases compared with the previous day.
According to the Institute, because the number of tests and laboratory tests and data transmissions of federal state health agencies will decrease during holidays and inter-years, epidemic-related statistics in the country will not be highly reference until at least next week or next week
Meanwhile, 105,867 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Germany in the past seven days, and the infection rate in seven days has decreased from 134.7 to 127.3 from the previous day.
The value indicates how many people in 100,000 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past seven days. The goal of the federal and state governments is to keep it below the alert value of 50. The seven-day infection rate is regarded as an important reference standard for tightening or relaxing epidemic prevention policies.
German Chancellor Merkel and the governors of the federal states held a video coronavirus summit the previous day (January 5 local time).
After consultation, they decided to extend the current “hard blockade order” throughout the country until January 31, and further tightened many regulations, including social contact, travel restrictions, etc.