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Medical personnel carry out a COVID-19 test in Berlin.
Thursday’s sharp rise in the number of new covid-19 cases in Germany does not appear to have been an isolated event. Also on Friday morning, infection control authority RKI reports more than 4,000 cases in the last 24 hours, a level that has not been seen since April.
The most affected are the big cities of Berlin, Bremen and Frankfurt am Main, all with more than 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days. At the state level, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, and Bavaria have the highest number of cases in absolute terms, which is not surprising, as all three states are the most populous in the country.
The number of patients in German intensive care units is also increasing. Currently, about 500 people are treated with VAT, of which 239 are on respirators, according to RKI.
On Wednesday, most German states agreed to a so-called “Beherbergungsverbot”, an accommodation ban, which prohibits hotel owners from receiving visitors from risky areas, even within Germany, unless they can show proof of covid- 19 negative of the last 48 hours.
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