25 November 2021, Lower Saxony, Giesen: A cremation technician prepares to cremate a coffin labelled "SARS-CoV-2 positive - Corona" containing a deceased person at the crematorium "Die Feuerbestattungen Hildesheim".
The number of people in Germany wh BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel labelled Thursday "a very sad day" and backed calls for more restrictions, as her country became the latest to surpass 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.The national disease control agency said it recorded 351 deaths in connection with the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking the total toll to 100,119.