Germany today records, for the third consecutive day, less than a thousand new diagnosed cases of covid-19, accounting for 679 more than the previous day, for a total of 163,175.
The number of fatalities, according to official data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), has also seen the smallest increase in recent weeks. There were another 43 deaths, the lowest figure since March, for a total of 6,692 across the country.
The RKI reveals that there are now 132,700 people who have overcome covid-19, an increase of about 2,200 in the last 24 hours.
Today Germany is facing a new relaxation of measures to combat the pandemic, including the opening of hairdressers, although under strict hygiene and safety rules.
The federal state of Upper Saxony is the first in the country to allow the gathering of five people who do not live in the same house. The region’s leader, Reiner Haseloff, admits that this is “a significant step” to return to normalcy.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 245,000 deaths and infected more than 3.4 million people in 195 countries and territories.
More than a million patients were considered cured.
In Portugal, 1,043 people died of the 25,282 confirmed as infected, and there are 1,689 recovered cases, according to the Directorate-General for Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
To combat the pandemic, governments sent 4.5 billion people home (more than half the world’s population), ended non-essential trade and drastically reduced air traffic, paralyzing entire sectors of the world economy.
Faced with a decrease in new patients in intensive care and contagion, some countries have started to develop plans to reduce confinement and in some cases to alleviate various measures.
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