The corona numbers in Germany continue to rise steeply. At just under 400, the nationwide seven-day incidence reached a new high on Tuesday.
The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has risen to another record high. As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced early Tuesday morning, citing data from the health authorities, the value increased to 399.8. It reached a new high for the 16th day in a row. On Monday the incidence was 386.5, on Tuesday of last week it was 312.4.
The seven-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week. On November 8, the value in Germany had exceeded the threshold of 200 and thus the previous high since the beginning of the pandemic of 197.6. Since then, new highs have been recorded every day.
As the RKI announced on Tuesday, 45,326 new infections with the corona virus were recorded nationwide within 24 hours. The death toll from the pandemic in Germany rose by 309 to 99,433 cases.
Hospitalizations as a benchmark
The federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence on Thursday as the decisive benchmark for tightening the corona measures. This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are in hospital within seven days because of a corona infection.
From a value of three, the 2G rule applies across the board for events in a federal state – that is, only those vaccinated against the coronavirus and those recovered from Covid-19 are allowed. From a value of six, the 2G-Plus rule applies, in which the admitted vaccinated and convalescent must also show a negative corona test. According to the latest information from the RKI on the incidence of hospitalization, this value was 5.28 nationwide on Monday.
According to the RKI, the total number of registered cases of infection in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic rose from Tuesday morning to 5,430,91. The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 4,680,000.
Source From: Stern
