6:07 a.m. ET, March 1, 2021 Germany's Covid death toll tops 70,000, as Bavaria PM warns that mutations are "starting to dominate" From CNN’s Claudia Otto in Berlin and Stephanie Halasz in London A crematorium employee affixes a "Corona" marker to a coffin in Dachsenhausen, Germany on January 22. Thomas Frey/picture alliance/Getty Images More than 70,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Germany, according to official figures. The country's agency for disease control and prevention, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), on Monday recorded 4,732 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 2,447,068. The RKI also reported 60 additional deaths, bringing the total death toll to 70,105. Recorded numbers are always low at weekends because not so many people get tested.