German daily COVID death toll nears 1,000 a week into lockdown


  • World
  • Wednesday, 23 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in a protective suit attends to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) at the university hospital in Aachen, Germany, December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Leon Kuegeler

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported a record daily coronavirus death toll of 962 on Wednesday, a week after the start of a hard lockdown that has forced most stores as well as hair salons and other services to close.

The total death toll now stands at 27,968, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed.

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