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More than 4,000 new infections in Germany
6.30 am.: According to the Robert Koch Institute, health authorities have reported more than 4,122 people infected. On Monday, 2,467 new corona infections were reported in one day.
Experience has shown that the figures recorded on Sundays and Mondays are usually lower, also because not all health authorities transmit data to the RKI on weekends. On Tuesday a week ago, there were 2,639 cases.
By Thursday, the number of new infections had passed the 4000 mark for the first time since April, at 4,058. On Saturday, there were even 4,721 new cases detected.
According to the RKI, at least 329,453 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 13, 00:00). Therefore, the number of deaths related to a corona infection was 9634. That was 13 more than the day before. According to RKI estimates, around 279,300 have been recovered.
According to RKI estimates in Germany, according to Monday’s management report, the number of views, or R-value for short, was 1.29 (previous day: 1.40). This means that an infected person infects just under 1.3 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 1.25 (previous day: 1.37) according to information from Monday. It shows the infection process from 8 to 16 days ago.
Head of health insurance: rapid tests at events are “science fiction”
6.28 am: The director of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians has dashed hopes of using rapid antigen tests at major events. “Even the announced rapid antigen tests are not a panacea,” said Andreas Gassen of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Tuesday). “The idea of us doing a rapid test with 5,000 visitors to the stadium is still science fiction.”
Even with the best rapid tests, two to ten infected people out of a hundred tested would not be recognized. “In massive events in a confined space, a potential risk of infection cannot be safely ruled out,” Gassen said.
In antigen testing, the characteristic proteins of the virus are recognized after smears. The method is considered to be less reliable than many of the conventional PCR tests for virus genes, but it is often faster and cheaper.
The first antigen tests for use by medical professionals are already on the market in Germany. According to the Federal Ministry of Health, rapid antigen tests will be used in nursing homes and hospitals from mid-October.
Man infected with corona twice in a month and a half in the US.
6.25 am: A man in the US contracted the coronavirus twice with an interval of only about a month and a half, and the course of his second infection was more severe than the first time.
This is the result of a study published this Tuesday in the journal “The Lancet Infectious Diseases.” Consequently, the 25-year-old from the state of Nevada had to be hospitalized and ventilated after his second infection.
According to the study, the man was infected with two different variants of the Sars-CoV-2 virus. The research mentioned four other cases around the world in which people who had already been infected with the coronavirus were infected a second time. This affected people in Belgium, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Ecuador.
It is not yet clear how long immunity lasts after a first infection with the new virus, explained study lead author Mark Pandori. But the study shows that a previous infection does not necessarily protect against repeated infections.
This means that those who tested positive “must continue to take precautionary measures” such as keeping physical distance from other people, wearing respirators and washing their hands regularly.
