The infection process in Germany seems to be easing. The RKI again reported a lower incidence than the previous day.
Berlin (dpa) – The health authorities in Germany reported 21,953 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. This comes from the RKI figures from Thursday morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5:01 a.m.
For comparison: on Thursday a week ago the value was 24,736. According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days was 129.1 nationwide on Thursday morning (previous day: 132.8; previous week: 154.9)
According to the RKI, 250 new deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. Exactly a week ago there were 264 dead.
The RKI has counted 3,473,503 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected. The RKI stated the number of people recovered to be around 3,107,300. The total number of people who died with or with a proven Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 84,126.
According to the RKI situation report on Thursday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.88 (previous day: 0.83). This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 88 more people. The R-value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago. If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides; if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
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