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Once again, German health authorities reported more than 30,000 new cases of corona in one day. The death toll is also high.
German health authorities reported 32,552 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 24 hours. In addition, 964 new deaths were recorded, the RKI announced Thursday morning. However, the figures are only partially comparable with the values of the previous week. The RKI expected fewer tests and fewer reports from health authorities during the Christmas period. From RKI’s point of view, the current high numbers are also due to late registrations. A week ago there were 32,195 new infections and 802 new deaths in one day.
The seven-day incidence is 139
The number of new infections reported to health authorities in seven days per 100,000 population (seven-day incidence) was 139.8 on Thursday morning. Its previous high was reached on December 22 at 197.6. However, the differences between federal states are huge: the highest incidences on Thursday had Saxony with 326.7 and Thuringia with 246.5 the lowest value with Schleswig-Holstein with 77.1.
The RKI has counted 1,719,737 infections detected with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic (as of December 31). The total number of people who died with or with a documented Sars-CoV-2 infection increased to 33,071. The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 1,328,200.
According to the RKI report on Wednesday, the national seven-day R-value was 0.68 (Tuesday: 0.67). This R-value means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 68 more people. The value represents the onset of infection 8-16 days ago. If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides. However, in its report, the RKI emphasizes that at the end of the year corona cases are only shown, recorded and transmitted with a delay, “so the R value can also be underestimated.”
