The Latest: Germany passes over 15,000 virus deaths

BERLIN — Germany has passed the grim milestone of more than 15,000 deaths from the coronavirus. The Robert Koch Institute, the country’s disease control center, said Thursday that another 389 deaths were recorded overnight, bringing the total since the start of the pandemic to 15,160. Germany has seen 983,588 total cases of the coronavirus after adding 22,368 overnight, the agency said. Germany embarked on a so-called “wave-breaker” shutdown on…