By Lucy Campbell (now); Martin Belam and Samantha Lock (earlier)
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Some Covid numbers from Germany are now in.
The European nation reported another 73,209 new Covid cases for Wednesday and 388 deaths, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute.
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