The Covid-19 infection rate in Germany stood at 145 per 100 000 on Saturday, the first time it has exceeded 100 since May.
Infections have been rising in the country since the start of autumn.
In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German chancellor Angela Merkel said that the rise in infections concerned her ‘a great deal’.
She referred to ‘a certain recklessness’ on the part of the population in not taking up vaccinations sufficiently. This was a matter that should worry the whole country.
‘The fact that, for example, 2 or 3 million Germans over 60 are still unvaccinated makes me very sad, because that could make a difference for them personally as well as for society as a whole,’ she commented.
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