The seven-day average increase in new cases of coronavirus infections in Germany continues to rise - as of Monday morning, August 16, its value was 36.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute, writes DW.

The day before, this figure was 35, and a week earlier - 23.1.

Thus, the growth rate has overcome the legal barrier with a value of 35, after which the strengthening of restrictions takes effect..

However, other factors are taken into account when deciding on measures to control covid, including the number of hospitalizations among patients with this infection..

Over the past 24 hours in Germany, with a population of 84 million in the country, 2,126 new infections have been confirmed, 4 patients with coronavirus infection have died.

57% of German citizens received both doses of vaccine, and 63.1% received their first vaccine.