The number of new infections with the corona virus rose sharply again on Wednesday. The Robert Koch Institute registered more than 80,000 for the first time – a new record.
In Germany, the corona numbers have reached a new daily high. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) stated the number of new infections within 24 hours on Wednesday morning as 80,430. The previous record was 65,371 new infections on November 18, 2021. On Tuesday morning, the health authorities had reported 45,690 new infections to the RKI.
The seven-day incidence, meanwhile, passed the 400 mark. As of Wednesday morning, it was 407.5. The day before it was 387.9. A week ago the incidence was 258.6. Most recently, the incidence was more than 400 in early December. On November 29, the RKI reported the previous high of 452.4. The value quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
Coronavirus: 384 new deaths reported
In addition, 384 new coronavirus-related deaths were counted on Wednesday. That was a little more than on Tuesday with 322 and on the Wednesday of the previous week with 346. The previous daily high of corona deaths was on January 14, 2021 with 1244.
According to the latest information from the institute, the health authorities have recorded a total of 7,661,811 cases of infection since the start of the pandemic. The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany rose to 114,735. The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 6,836,600.
In November, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence 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. According to the latest RKI report from Tuesday, the nationwide hospitalization incidence was 3.34.
Source From: Stern
