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Crown numbers in Germany continue to rise. Once again, the Robert Koch Institute reports a new daily high. The important reproduction value also continues to increase.
German health authorities reported 7,830 new corona infections in one day, more than ever since the start of the pandemic. This comes from data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from Saturday morning. The day before, the highest value to date was recorded with 7,334 new cases. Last week, the RKI reported 4,721 new infections on Saturday. The current values are only partially comparable to those of the spring, because many more tests are now being carried out and therefore more infections are being discovered.
According to experts, recently reported infections are an indication of how strong the virus was in society about a week ago due to the time between infection, test, result, and report. That is why it takes some time before political measures are reflected in the reporting figures.
33 new deaths
According to the RKI, at least 356,387 people in Germany have been shown to have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the beginning of the Corona crisis (until October 17 at 12:00 am). Therefore, the number of deaths related to a corona infection was 9,767. That was 33 more than the day before. According to RKI estimates, around 290,000 have been recovered.
According to RKI’s management report on Friday, the number of views, or R-value for short, was 1.22 (previous day: 1.08) in Germany. This means that an infected person infects about 1.2 people on average. The R value represents the infection rate approximately one and a half weeks earlier.
Additionally, the RKI gives a seven-day R call in its current status report. The value refers to a longer period of time and is therefore less subject to daily fluctuations. According to RKI estimates, this value was 1.30 (previous day: 1.22). It shows the infection process from 8 to 16 days ago.
