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Germany's coronavirus cases rise by 2,458 to 139,897: RKI

FILE PHOTO: Andreas Wieser from the department of Infection and Tropical Medicine at the University of Munich, works with blood samples for a study about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Munich Germany, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen by 2,458 to 139,897, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday.

That was lower than a 3,609 increase reported on Saturday, by when cases of infections had been increasing for four days in a row.

The reported death toll has risen by 184 to 4,294, the Sunday tally showed.

That was down from a day-on-day increase shown on Saturday of 242, and 299 on Friday.

(Reporting by Vera Eckert, editing by Richard Pullin)

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