'Let us continue to stay at home as much as possible, keep observing the restrictions,' Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute, warned.
After Germany declared the coronavirus pandemic"under control" and moved to ease lockdown restrictions, the European country's infection rate has now risen.
Earlier this month, Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn said that the outbreak was"under control" and some stringent social distancing measures have been eased over the past few days. Some shops have been allowed to reopen and some students have returned to school for the first time in weeks. Other large businesses, such as the car manufacturer Volkswagen, have resumed some production.
But data reported late on Monday showed that the infection rate in the country has now risen to 1.0, up from 0.9, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The infection rate had been hovering around 0.7 in mid-April. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously warmed that an infection rate of 1.1 could overwhelm the country's health care system within months.
A worker wearing a protective mask amid the coronavirus pandemic stands in front of the entrance as visitors line up at the Zoo Tierpark on April 28 in Berlin, Germany"Even if we assume that one person infects 1.1 others, we would reach the limits of what our health system and intensive care beds can manage in October," Merkel, who was trained as a scientist before entering politics, explained earlier in April.
"If we assume a rate of 1.2 ... we would reach the health system's limit in July. And with a rate of 1.3 - it doesn't sound like much - we would get there in June already," the chancellor added.
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