Covid: Record fatalities in Germany as well as Russia
But the surge in infections has progressively concerned leading authorities, with Lothar Wieler, head of Germany’s public healthy and balanced body, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), explaining the circumstance as “extremely fragile”. Chancellor Angela Merkel made an enthusiastic speech in the Bundestag (parliament) today requiring tighter procedures, stating that “500 deaths a day is unacceptable”.