(ANSA-AFP) - FRANKFURT AM MAIN, NOV 25 - Germany announced
record coronavirus fatalities and infections Thursday as its
total death toll passed 100,000, with its most severe virus wave
yet swelling just as a new government prepares to replace Angela
Merkel's coalition. Germany weathered earlier bouts of the
pandemic better than many other European countries, but has seen
a recent resurgence, with intensive care beds rapidly filling
up. Europe's largest economy recorded 351 Covid fatalities in
the past 24 hours, bringing the official death toll since the
start of the pandemic to 100,119, in what Bild daily called a
"grim milestone". The weekly incidence rate also hit an all-time
high of 419.7 new infections per 100,000 people, according to
figures from the Robert Koch Institute health agency. The
escalating health crisis poses an immediate challenge to the new
centre-left-led coalition government set to take over from
Merkel's cabinet next month. The country has been stuck in
political limbo since the September 26 general election, with
the popular former scientist Merkel governing only in a
caretaker capacity. (ANSA-AFP).
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