Multiple sporting events and organisations in Germany have been rattled with a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the past month, with football and boxing taking the biggest hits after facing delays, according to US media reports.

On Monday, a game between football teams of Würzburg and Eintracht Braunschweig– who play in the third division– was postponed after a coronavirus outbreak was reported in the city of Würzburg, located in northern Bavaria. According to reports from Associated Press, five players scheduled to play the match had tested positive for the deadly disease.

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Additionally, a second-division game was postponed last week over 18 cases among players and staff at Sandhausen. So far, the fixtures of Bundesliga have not been altered due to the surge in cases.  

Outbreaks among top clubs have generally been small, though Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann and Wolfsburg forward Wout Weghorst each missed Champions League games last month following positive tests, according to reports from Associated Press.

Meanwhile, the German Boxing Association said on Monday that next month’s national amateurs were being postponed to April 2021 as regional regulations would mean the event could be open only to people who have been vaccinated or are certified as having recently recovered from an infection.

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The association said it was postponing the championships so that any boxers who aren’t vaccinated would have enough time to get both doses of a vaccine before competing. Vaccine or recovery will still be required for the new dates, according to reports from Associated Press.

The Robert Koch Institute, which is considered to be the national disease control center of the central European country, announced on Monday that Germany had set a new record high— infection rate of 201.1 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past seven days — since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.