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reThe number of coronavirus-related deaths reported in 24 hours has skyrocketed to a new record. German health authorities reported 590 new deaths in one day to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), according to RKI figures from Wednesday morning. That’s more than 100 more cases than the previous record of 487 deaths last Wednesday.
A total of 20,815 new infections with the coronavirus were reported in 24 hours. On Wednesday of the previous week, the value was 17,270. The highest daily value so far was on November 20 with 23,648 cases.
The trend in the number of daily deaths had recently increased, which was expected after the sharp increase in new infections. The total number of people who died with or with a proven Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 19,932 on Wednesday.
For all of Germany, the RKI also gave a new high of 149.1 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days. At the beginning of the partial closure in November, there were about 120. The federal and state governments want to make less than 50, so that health authorities can trace the chains of infection again.
The RKI has counted 1,218,524 infections detected with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic. It is estimated that around 902,100 people have recovered.
