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German health authorities reported 22,046 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 24 hours. The value is just below 22,268 cases from the previous week, as can be seen from RKI’s figures from Thursday morning. With 479 new deaths in one day, health authorities also reported the second highest level since the start of the pandemic. The previous high of 487 deaths was reached on Wednesday.
The trend in the number of daily deaths had recently increased, which was also expected after the sharp increase in new infections. The total number of people who died with or with a proven Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 17,602 on Thursday. The RKI has counted 1,106,789 infections detected with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic. It is estimated that around 800,000 people have recovered.
According to RKI’s management report on Wednesday, the so-called seven-day R-value was 0.89 (previous day: also 0.89). This means that, in theory, 100 infected people infect 89 more people. The value represents the onset of infection 8-16 days ago. If the value is less than 1 for a long time, the infection rate decreases.
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