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Coronavirus: 16,774 new infections in Germany

2020-10-29T05:14:48.118Z


The number of new corona infections every day continues to rise sharply in Germany. Chancellor Merkel wants to explain her corona policy in a government statement on Thursday morning.


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The number of deaths related to the virus rose 89 to a total of 10,272 as of Thursday

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The number of registered new corona infections in Germany has reached a new high of 16,774 cases within one day.

This emerges from information from the Robert Koch Institute from early Thursday morning.

The previous record from the previous day was 14,964 cases.

On Thursday a week ago, the health authorities had reported 11,287 new infections.

The value had exceeded the 10,000 mark for the first time since the start of the corona pandemic in Germany.

The current values ​​are only partially comparable with those from spring, since significantly more tests are now carried out and more infections are discovered as a result.

According to the RKI, a total of 481,013 people across Germany have been infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic (as of October 29, 00:00).

The number of deaths related to the virus rose 89 to a total of 10,272 as of Thursday.

The RKI estimates that around 339,200 people have now recovered.

The number of reproductions, or R value for short, was 1.03 in Germany according to the RKI management report on Wednesday (previous day: 1.17).

This means that one infected person infects a little more than one other person.

The R-value depicts the infection rate about one and a half weeks beforehand.

In addition, the RKI gives a so-called seven-day R in its management report.

The value relates to a longer period and is therefore less subject to daily fluctuations.

According to RKI estimates, this value was 1.17 on Tuesday.

It shows the infection process from 8 to 16 days ago.

Chancellor will issue government statement

After the federal-state consultations on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to explain the federal government's corona policy to the Bundestag on Thursday.

The government statement is the third since the pandemic began.

A one-and-a-half hour debate is planned to follow the approximately 20-minute speech (9 a.m.).

The federal and state governments agreed on Wednesday to break the second wave of corona infections with strict contact restrictions for citizens and an extensive shutdown of all leisure activities.

This is to prevent an uncontrollable spread of the epidemic.

The measures should apply from next Monday (November 2nd) and last until the end of November.

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Source: spiegel

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