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reThe number of new coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to more than 10,000 registered cases in one day for the first time since the pandemic began. As announced by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Thursday morning, 11,287 new cases of infection had been recorded the day before. The previous record was 7,830 infections in one day and was reported by health authorities last Friday.
According to the RKI, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases rises to 392,049. The number of reported deaths related to the virus increases from 30 to 9,905.
RKI President Lothar Wieler recently emphasized the seriousness of the current situation. “Currently, an accelerated increase in the number of broadcasts can be observed in Germany,” the RKI wrote in its status report on Wednesday. “Therefore, an urgent call is made for the entire population to be committed to protecting against infections.” The RKI includes, among other things, rules of distance and hygiene also outdoors, ventilation of interior spaces and, when necessary, covering the mouth and nose.
Medical representatives are concerned
More recently, almost a third of all districts and cities registered by the RKI were above the threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week (data as of October 21), after which more stringent measures of protection against infection in many places. In around 30 districts and cities, the value was even higher than 100.
In view of the increasing numbers, the head of the association of doctors in the public health service no longer considers Chancellor Angela Merkel’s (CDU) scenario that the number of new corona infections in Germany could rise to more than 19,000 as exaggerated. . “When the chancellor spoke of 19,200 new infections in one day a few weeks ago, I initially considered that such a development was unlikely,” the president of the Federal Association of Physicians in the Public Health Service, Ute Teichert, told the group’s newspapers. Funke Thursday media. “But the way things are currently going, I think it’s a realistic assessment.”
According to the information of the participants, Merkel warned of a significant increase in new corona infections in Germany in a videoconference of the CDU presidium in late September. If these develop weekly, there will be 19,200 new infections a day by Christmas, he said.
If the number of infections increased considerably in a region in a short period of time, such as in the Berchtesgadener Land district, health authorities “quickly reached the limit of excessive demands,” Teichert said. He admitted that, especially in regions with many infections, not all contact persons can currently be traced. The Robert Koch Institute had discussed nine cities and districts where, for example, case determination and follow-up of contact persons were no longer entirely satisfactory.
