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Germany Sees 'Worrying' Jump in COVID-19 Cases

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   Germany's health officials said Thursday new COVID-19 cases are
   spreading at the fastest rate since April.

   Health Minister Jens Spahn joined Robert Kock Institute for Disease
   Control President Lothar Wieler at a news conference in Berlin, where
   they said the number of new cases of the coronavirus has been rising
   steadily in Germany since early September. Wieler told reporters, "In
   the last few days between 1,000 and today even more than 4,000 cases
   have been reported to the Robert Koch Institute every day."

   Weiler said the first seven days of October had seen about twice as
   many cases as the same period in September. He said the current weekly
   nationwide average rate of COVID-19 incidence is 20.2 cases per 100,000
   inhabitants; at the beginning of June it was three.

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