Covid Germany, today 8,500 infections and 71 deaths

In the past 24 hours, Germany has recorded 8500 new coronavirus infections and 71 deaths. Data from the Robert Koch Institute lead to a total of 3,593,434 cases of covid-19 and 86,096 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. There are currently around 221,000 active cases in the country. The incidence of infections over seven days stands at 83.1 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, a figure that has fallen for the third consecutive day.