robert carr institute announced the figure only on friday after recording another 22000 infections overnight. the contain the spread of the fires during the 1st wave in the spring, but it's been hard hit by the 2nd. another somber milestone for germany as covert 1000 cases in the country passed the 1000000 mark. germany also registered a record daily death toll of 426 higher than any level reached there in the 1st wave in the spring. after almost 4 weeks of a partial lockdown, the country is still not out of the woods. the increase in the only new cases appears to have leveled off for the past few days, but daily new infections haven't dropped significantly. germany's federal health agency, the robert cock institute, also report some other worrying trends. above all, the growing proportion of coronavirus cases among older age groups and more outbreaks in senior and nursing homes. in light of the situation, the german government decided this week to extend the partial lockdown until december 20th. people in berlin think it was the right thing to do. i think it's good that we have these measur

the situation we have in a moment we are concerned by that 12700 new cases reported by the robert carr institute which is traveling in 2 weeks 5 times the amount it made october. so this is exponential growth and we are heading straight for an acute emergency in our hospitals if we do not do anything and we see this when we look at the number of covered 1000 patients in our i.c.u. nurse again there's been a doubling the rate from 1030 beds on the 22nd of october we've covered patients to 2000. 61 ice you bet occupied by 1000 patients on the 1st of november and we know that the number of patients in our i.c.u. . is always. downstream it's a bit later so that means that the cases who are reported now as in fact it will only end up in our i.c.u. patients is just 6 in 2 weeks it takes a while for new cases to be in i.c.u. so what we're seeing here in terms of the number of i.c.u. patients are patients who got infected 10 or 14 days ago and because we've had such an intense rise of new cases we will see this reflected in i.c.u. beds too and as we come closer and closer to the threshold of response ca

case numbers are still increasing despite a partial national lockdown of the robert carr institute says the infection is likely to start flattening soon. germany is in its 2nd week of a 4 week partial shutdown, but the covert 19 situation remained serious. more than 20000, new infections have been recorded in a single day. the head of the country's disease control agency, the robot. kok institute warned of more deaths to come from a small store and you need to accept that the situation is going to get worse. over the coming weeks, some clinics could reach the limits of their capacity and it is possible that patients will not be able to receive optimum care. in the last 2 weeks alone, intensive care occupancy has more than doubled. the german doctors say they are watching the number of free beds diminish quickly. authorities have urged people to remain vigilant. but as it was the case with the spanish flu, we now also have to expect the 2nd wave to be more severe. absent it happens during a less fortunate time of year the winter months, which means we will have to deal with this for the