In just 24 hours, more than 65,000 new illnesses were reported across the country. Officials from the Department of Health have cautioned that the figure is likely to have double or triple that.
On Thursday, Germany set a new record by registering 65,000 new coronavirus infections in 24 hours. This is the first time the figure has surpassed 60,000 in a single day since the outbreak began. At the same time, Lothar Wieler, the director of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country's communicable diseases agency, warned that the figure may be considerably higher.
