UPDATE 1-Germany ups daily COVID-19 infection number after glitch
BERLIN, Sept 4- Germany registered around 1,430 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, its leading public health institute said on Friday, significantly raising its initial estimate. The Robert Koch Institute’s first tally was 782. Daily cases in Germany, which has kept the virus in check better than some other large European countries due to early…
BERLIN, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Germany registered around 1,430
new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, its leading
public health institute said on Friday, significantly raising
its initial estimate.
The Robert Koch Institute’s (RKI) first tally was 782. Itsaid technical problems had led to an undercount.
The higher figure is in line with the trend of increasednumbers of new infections over the past four weeks that have ledto fears of a second COVID-19 wave. Many have been diagnosedamong travellers returning from abroad.
The number of new infections is one of the main factorsfederal and state officials consider when deciding whether toloosen or tighten measures to slow the spread of the pandemic.
Daily cases in Germany, which has kept the virus in checkbetter than some other large European countries due to earlytesting and mandatory social distancing measures, peaked at justover 6,000 in early April.(Reporting by Thomas Seythal; editing by John Stonestreet)