Germany considers fresh measures to curb Covid surge

“The current pandemic situation in Germany is dramatic, I can’t say it any other way,” outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel said

The three political parties negotiating to form Germany’s next government have agreed on a series of public health measures for parliament to debate (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Germany’s disease control agency reported 52,826 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, stoking calls for fresh measures to curb steadily rising infection rates.

The Robert Koch Institute said 294 more people had died with Covid-19 in Germany since the previous day, bringing the country’s pandemic death toll to 98,274. The number of infections recorded since the start of the pandemic had reached almost 5.13 million.