FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Authorities in Germany’s Goettingen and North Rhine Westphalia regions have called on police to enforce quarantine measures following a rise in local coronavirus infections, which caused the country’s virus reproduction rate to spike.
Germany’s reproduction rate of novel coronavirus infections jumped to 1.79, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for public health said on Saturday, far above the level needed to contain it over the longer term.The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 687 to 189,822, data from the RKI showed on Sunday.A riot broke out at a block of flats in Goettingen on Saturday