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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) typically announces the lowest numbers for the week on Sundays and Mondays, because German health authorities report significantly fewer cases on weekends.
According to the RKI, this Sunday there are 2,279 new infections. That’s an increase of more than 60 percent compared to Sunday a week ago, when the RKI reported 1,410 new infections in 24 hours!
According to the RKI, the total number of deaths related to a corona infection is 9529. Two more deaths have been reported since the previous day.
261,900 people are considered to have recovered (about 1,100 more than the previous day), and a total of 299,237 people have tested positive since the start of the pandemic.
Media: There are currently around 27,800 active cases in Germany.
The R value
The number of views, or the R-value for short, was 1.10 based on RKI estimates in Germany based on the management report on Saturday (previous day: 0.97). This means that one infected person infects slightly more than one other person on average. The R value represents the infection rate approximately one and a half weeks earlier.
Additionally, the RKI gives a seven-day R on its current status report. The value refers to a longer period and is therefore less subject to daily fluctuations. According to RKI estimates, this value was 1.13 on Friday (previous day: 1.08). It shows the infection process for eight to 16 days.
“Since the second week of September, reported R values have been mostly above 1,” the RKI writes in Wednesday’s management report. “Even if the R-values are a bit lower today, development needs to be monitored more.”
Hot spots
The established limit of 50 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days is exceeded in several places in Germany.
- Hamm city without district (North Rhine-Westphalia): The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days is 99.4 and therefore still well above the number of infections in other cities.
- Remscheid (North Rhine-Westphalia): Here the weekly incidence value is 58.6.
- In the county Vechta (Lower Saxony) the value is 50.1.
- Am Berlin Mitte district the value of 7 days is 57.3.
- In Berlin-Neukölln the value is 56.7.
- In Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg the value is 52.1.
You can find an overview of the German situation here!
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How common is Corona around the world?
The private Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA) determines the world number of corona cases. If you compare the German figures from Johns Hopkins University with those from the RKI, then the RKI appears to be lagging behind in registering new corona cases. Reason: Both institutions determine the number of cases in different ways.
This is how the RKI works
As the independent federal authority for infectious diseases, the Robert Koch Institute is currently shaping all of our lives with its figures, studies, and the knowledge gained from them.
People with 90 different professions from 50 countries work there. Of the 1,296 employees, 1,224 are in Berlin and 72 in the Wernigerode branch. The Berlin 24/7 Situation Center alone has 150 employees.
