FILE PHOTO: Andreas Wieser from the department of Infection and Tropical Medicine at the University of Munich, works with blood samples for a study about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Munich Germany, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
April 19, 2020
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases have risen by 2,458 to 139,897, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday.
That was lower than a 3,609 increase reported on Saturday, by when cases of infections had been increasing for four days in a row.
The reported death toll has risen by 184 to 4,294, the Sunday tally showed.
That was down from a day-on-day increase shown on Saturday of 242, and 299 on Friday.
(Reporting by Vera Eckert, editing by Richard Pullin)
