Merkel extremely worried over rising COVID-19 infections in Germany

BERLIN, Sept 28 (KUNA) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that she was extremely worried over the rising number of coronavirus (COVID-19) in her country.
"We must quickly contain the infections and intervene," Merkel said in a videoconference of the leadership of her Christian Democrats party (CDU).
"We must set priorities, namely keeping the economy running and keeping schools and nurseries open. Soccer is secondary to that for now." "If the trend continues as it is now, we'll have 19,200 infections a day. That's like in other countries," Merkel added Earlier today, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said that one new COVID-19 death occurred while 1,192 infections were reported in the last 24 hours.
The pandemic death toll reached 9,460, while total infections were at 285,332 cases. (pickup previous) anj.gta