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Germany has reported another 44,401 Covid cases, tasking its total to 5,761,696. There were also another 104 deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours, meaning that 100,883 people have died from the disease.
The health ministry in the German state of Bavaria announced on Saturday two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant.
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