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Health authorities have informed the Robert Koch Institute of 698 new deaths in relation to the corona virus. The number of new infections is also increasing.
The corona virus in Germany continues to spread rapidly. German health authorities reported a total of 26,923 new infections on Thursday morning. Compared to the previous week, they are almost 3,000 more infected. The number of daily deaths is 698, the second highest figure since the outbreak of the pandemic. Given the increase in new infections, this increase in deaths was expected.
Seven-day incidence drops only slightly
There is also nothing clear regarding the seven-day incidence, which indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are infected with the corona virus. This figure was slightly reduced to 179.2, but it is still a long way from the politically defined target of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants. The seven-day R-value is 0.98 based on current data. This means that currently 100 infected people infect 98 more people. For the infection situation to relax, the R-value should be below one for a longer period of time.
Germany locked up
The strictest rules to combat the corona pandemic have been in place in Germany since Wednesday: shops are closed, with the exception of supermarkets, drug stores and pharmacies. In some cases, however, other stores may deliver the ordered products. Students learn digitally in the last days before Christmas holidays. In some federal states, exit restrictions also apply during night hours. For now, these rules apply until January 10.
Criticisms of the chief of medical insurance
The director of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, does not believe that the additional restrictions will slow down the infection rate. “A confinement, no matter how harsh, is not an adequate strategy to fight pandemics,” Gassen told the Germany publishing network. Instead, he called for risk groups to be better protected, for example by offering more public transport or subsidized taxi rides.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Robert Koch Institute has counted 1,406,161 detected infections, of which 1,047,600 are considered recovered. 24,125 people have died in connection with corona infection.
