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Germany has recorded nearly 30,000 new coronavirus cases and 598 new deaths over the past 24 hours. The COVID-19 infection rate has hit a record for the second day in a row.
Germany will have no choice but to introduce tougher restrictions to curb coronavirus infections if people do not reduce contacts significantly, the head of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases (RKI) said on Thursday. People have so far reduced contacts by around 40% on average, but contacts will need to be cut by at least 60%, in order to bring infections down, Lother Wieler said as he urged people not to travel over the Christmas holiday period.