Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger said Friday there are also some 10,000 Afghans who worked for German forces or for other reasons had been identified as entitled to evacuation. But it's unclear how many of those might have found a way out other than on German flights.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the last of the German military aircraft and troops arrived in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday evening.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday discussed the unfolding situation in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
Berlin's police department deployed more than 2,000 officers to try and disperse the protests on Sunday.
German officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that caught many people by surprise and left over 190 people dead in Western Europe, but concede that they will need to learn lessons from the disaster.
After homes were severely damaged, or in some cases swept away, local residents started to clean up the debris and rebuild some normality.
The new travel warning does not affect travel to Spain directly yet, Xinhua news agency quoted the AA as saying on Friday.
Germany is easing strict restrictions on travel from Britain, Portugal and some other countries that were imposed because of the rise of the more contagious delta virus variant.
The Delta variant is expected to become the dominant Covid-19 strain in Germany with its share of positive cases approaching 80 per cent.
The incident took place on Barbarossaplatz square in the city centre on Friday evening, reports Xinhua news agency.
German police say several people have been killed and others injured in a knife attack in the southern city of Wuerzburg on Friday.
Although the share of the Covid-19 Delta variant in Germany is only 6 per cent of the new cases, the strain is spreading at a fast pace, Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said.
According to local police authorities, in Bavaria alone there have been "a number of cases in the low double-digits", dpa news agency reported.
Germany will start vaccination children over the age of 12 against Covid-19 from June 7.
An IAF C17 Globemaster was tasked to airlift medical supplies from Germany's Frankfurt to Mumbai.
Germany will always support India in difficult times, says German Ambassador Walter J Lindner.
Germany sends mobile oxygen production plant to India as Nation fights covid.
Health authorities have said that benefits of getting inoculated against COVID-19 far outweigh any risks, and Spahn said many people still waiting for an appointment for their first shot would be happy to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
India will be importing oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany to cater oxygen shortage in the country.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and the 16 state health ministers came to the decision in an emergency meeting, after authorities in the cities of Berlin and Munich decided to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under the age of 60.
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