Within one day, the health authorities in Saarland registered 152 new corona infections.
Two more deaths were reported in connection with the virus, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin on Thursday (as of 3:10 a.m.).
The incidence, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, rose from 54.4 to 61.2.
Saarbrücken - Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 48 402 proven corona cases in the state, 1059 people died from or with the virus.
According to the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, there were last 18 adult patients with Covid 19 disease in the intensive care units of the Saarland hospitals, 5 were ventilated (as of 7.15 a.m. on Thursday).
dpa