{"id":410240,"date":"2022-01-27T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=410240"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T13:27:50","slug":"germany-records-over-200000-daily-covid-19-cases-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/germany-records-over-200000-daily-covid-19-cases-for-1st-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany records over 200,000 daily COVID-19 cases for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin <strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>:Germany reported a record number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, exceeding the 200,000 mark for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country&#8217;s disease control agency, confirmed 203,136 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours and 188 coronavirus-related fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities estimate that currently over 1.6 million people are sick with COVID-19, which is an all-time high for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The more infectious omicron variant has been the driving force behind the new surge, according to the institute, and the variant accounts for at least 89% of sequenced coronavirus cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Health experts say new infections are likely to increase over the next few weeks and are expected to reach a peak by mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>While the omicron variant causes less severe disease, experts are warning that it is spreading rapidly, and could still overwhelm the healthcare system if cases continue to climb dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is among the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic in Western Europe, and it has the fifth-highest tally of reported cases, behind France, the UK, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The country of 83 million has reported more than 9.2 million infections and nearly 118,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE: Anadolu Agency<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin (SONNA):Germany reported a record number of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, exceeding the 200,000 mark for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country&#8217;s disease control agency, confirmed 203,136 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours and 188 coronavirus-related fatalities. Health authorities estimate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-410240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410243,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410240\/revisions\/410243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}