Germany's Covid death toll tops 70,000, as Bavaria PM warns that mutations are "starting to dominate"
6:07 a.m. ET, March 1, 2021 Germany's Covid death toll tops 70,000, as Bavaria PM warns that mutations are "starting to dominate" From CNN’s Claudia Otto in Berlin and Stephanie Halasz in London A crematorium employee affixes a "Corona" marker to a coffin in Dachsenhausen, Germany on January 22. Thomas Frey/picture alliance/Getty Images More than 70,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Germany, according to official figures. The country's agency for disease control and prevention, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), on Monday recorded 4,732 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, br...