Germany reports 202 new death cases from coronavirus, total exceeds 6,000

BERLIN, April 29 (MENA) - Germany reported on Wednesday 202 new death cases from coronavirus, bringing the tally of deaths to 6,115 while the new infections were 1,304 over the past 24 hours, according to the federal disease control agency Robert Kock Institute (RKI).

On Tuesday, RKI reported 1,144 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing its total tally to 156,337, according to (RKI).

"It is a success that we have all achieved here," said RKI President Lothar Wieler. "We have succeeded comparatively in getting through this epidemic in Germany."

At the height of pandemic in Germany, more than 6,000 new infections had been recorded by the RKI on a single day.

RKI added that the death toll from the novel coronavirus in Germany rose by 163 to 5,913, resulting in a case fatality rate of 3.8 percent. The estimated number of recoveries increased by around 2,900 within one day to 117,400 on Tuesday.

German hospitals continued to have sufficient capacity so that "no bottlenecks" were expected at current rates, according to Wieler.

The reproduction rate of COVID-19 in Germany, however, had risen slightly and was currently at 0.96, meaning that around one infected person infects another person on average, according to RKI. Last week, the reproduction rate in Germany had been at 0.9.

RKI and Chancellor Angela Merkel have repeatedly warned that the reproduction rate of the coronavirus in Germany had to be permanently below one in order to contain the epidemic.