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		</div><p>Germany’s health minister has said he thinks the country has passed the peak of new daily infections with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>Karl Lauterbach said government measures taken to curb the number of cases had been effective, but he warned against relaxing the public health rules too hastily.</p>
<p>“We are not really in safe waters,” he told reporters in Berlin.</p>
<p>Mr Lauterbach, an epidemiologist by training, noted that as many as 12% of people over age 60 in Germany are still unvaccinated.</p>
<p>That share is three to four times higher than for the unvaccinated vulnerable populations in comparable countries.</p>
<p>Germany has been slower than many of its neighbours to relax pandemic restrictions. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the country’s 16 state governors agreed on Wednesday on a three-step plan to end most of the country’s Covid-19 rules by March 20.</p>
<p>Mr Lauterbach defended the cautious approach, saying that “if we open too quickly, then the case numbers will rise again”.</p>
<p>He also said a general vaccine mandate was still necessary, noting that new or existing variants of the virus could lead to a fresh wave of infections in the autumn that could put a severe strain on the health system.</p>
<p>Germany’s disease control agency on Friday reported 220,048 newly confirmed daily cases of Covid-19 and 264 additional deaths.</p>
<p>Germany announced on Friday that it was taking almost 20 countries off its list of high-risk areas, including Britain, India, Spain and the United States. The move will make it easier for some travellers coming from those countries to enter Germany.</p>
<p>Previously, people who were not deemed to be fully vaccinated had to quarantine for at least five days upon arrival.</p>
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