Berlin Germany January 27 ANI Sputnik Germany logged a record number of COVID 19 infections in a single day for the third day in a row, with over 200,000 new cases registered in the past 24 hours alone, according to Robert Koch Institute data.
In the past 24 hours, 203,136 people in the United States have tested positive for COVID 19, with 188 deaths registered. The highest number of infections is in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia, with 41,841 new cases detected, while the metropolitan region of Berlin has 14,735 infections.
The cumulative number of COVID 19 cases in Germany reached 9.2 million, with a total of 117,314 deaths since the pandemic began. The share of the Omicron strain in the daily tally keeps rising, accounting for 63.2% of new cases to date, according to the recent data.
On Wednesday, German lawmakers considered imposing a universal mandate for all eligible adults over the age of 18 over the COVID-19 spike, as well as other options for the introduction of mandatory vaccination to curb the COVID-19 spike.
Germany has fully vaccinated over 61.1 million people, or 73.5% of the population against coronaviruses, with at least 42.2 million receiving a booster shot.