Prognosis
German Daily Covid-19 Infections Top 100,000 for First Time
- Omicron strain spreading fast across Europe’s largest economy
- Health Minister Lauterbach warns peak has not yet been reached
A medical helper at a Covid-19 test center in the small village of Unterschleissheim near Munich, on Jan. 18.
Photographer: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images
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Germany joined countries like the U.K., France and Italy in recording more than 100,000 new Covid-19 infections in a single day, and the country’s health minister warned that the crest of the wave is still weeks away.
In the latest evidence that the highly contagious omicron variant is spreading fast across Europe’s largest economy, another 112,323 infections were registered after 74,405 the previous day, according to data published Wednesday by Germany’s public-health institute RKI.