The nationwide incidence value has reached its highest value since the beginning of the pandemic. This emerges from the current figures from the Robert Koch Institute.
Berlin – The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has again reported a peak in the nationwide seven-day incidence. The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week this morning as 497.1.
For comparison: the day before the value was 470.6. A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 335.9 (previous month: 353.0). The health authorities in Germany reported 78,022 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. A week ago there were 55,889 infections.
According to the new information, 235 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 268 deaths. The RKI has counted 7,913,473 proven infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 3.23 (Thursday: 3.09, Wednesday: 3.13) according to the RKI. It had risen again for the first time in a few days. It will not be published at the weekend.
The RKI gave the number of recovered people today as 6,942,400. The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 115,572. dpa
