The number of new infections with the coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days has been increasing day by day since the end of December. It is now as high as it was last before Christmas.
The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has risen sharply again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value on Friday morning as 303.4. The day before it was 285.9, a week ago it was 214.9. The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days. It has been increasing day by day since the end of December and is now back as high as it was before Christmas.
Again more than 50,000 new coronavirus infections
As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 56,335 new infections were recorded within 24 hours. It was the third day in a row with more than 50,000 new infections. A week ago it was 41,270. According to the latest information, the health authorities have recorded a total of 7,417,995 cases of infection since the start of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, however, since many infections are not recognized.
In addition, 264 new coronavirus-related deaths were counted on Wednesday. A week ago there were 323 deaths. The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 113,632. The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 6,664,800.
The RKI has removed the warning that fewer tests and reports were expected during the holidays and at the turn of the year. It had previously been said that the RKI numbers probably did not provide a complete picture of the infection situation in Germany.
In November, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive yardstick 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. According to the latest RKI report from Thursday, the nationwide hospitalization incidence was 3.26.
Source From: Stern
