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A value higher than that now reported was last reached in the first week of April. The number of new infections with the coronavirus in Germany has soared to more than 4,000 in one day.
Health authorities reported 4,058 new corona infections in the previous 24 hours, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced Thursday. That’s more than 1,200 more than Wednesday, when 2,828 new infections were reported, a new record since April.
According to the RKI, at least 310,144 people in Germany have been shown to have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the start of the corona crisis (data as of October 8 at 12:00 am). According to the RKI, the number of deaths related to a corona infection is 9,578. That’s 16 more than the day before. About 269,600 people survived the infection according to RKI estimates. The positive test rate increased dramatically to 1.64 percent in the 40th calendar week (9/28 – 10/2). The week before it was 1.22 percent and before that 1.16 percent.
