Germany’s New Coronavirus Cases Rise the Most in About Six Weeks

Germany recorded the highest number of new coronavirus cases in about six weeks and the infection rate stayed above the key threshold of 1.0.

There were 839 new infections in the 24 hours through Thursday morning, up from 595 the previous day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That compares with almost 7,000 at the peak of the pandemic and brought the total to 208,546. There were four fatalities, taking the overall number of deaths to 9,135.