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The incidence of new corona infections in Germany has risen sharply again.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day incidence on Sunday morning to be 362.7.
It has been increasing day by day since the end of December.
The previous day the value was 335.9, a week ago it was 222.7.
The value quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
The incidence is again as high as it was last before Christmas.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, 36,552 new infections were recorded within 24 hours.
A week ago it was 12,515.
In addition, 77 new coronavirus-related deaths were counted on Sunday.
According to the latest information from the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 7,510,436 cases of infection since the start of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not recognized.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany rose to 113,977.
The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 6,713,100.
In November, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening the corona measures.
This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are in hospital within seven days because of a corona infection.
According to the latest RKI report from Friday, the nationwide hospitalization incidence was 3.15.
Luxembourg, Sweden and Israel are now corona high-risk areas
Luxembourg and almost 40 other countries have been wholly or partially high-risk areas since this Sunday due to the high number of corona infections. The Robert Koch Institute announced the new classifications on Friday. Anyone who enters from such an area and is not fully vaccinated or recovered has to be in quarantine for ten days and can only get rid of it with a negative test five days after arrival at the earliest.
In addition to Luxembourg, Sweden, Australia, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates with the winter holiday destination Dubai, Israel and Kenya are now on the risk list. Overall, the number of high-risk areas increased to more than 100 countries in one fell swoop. This means that around every second country in the world is again a high-risk area. Of the neighboring countries of Germany, only Austria is not a high-risk area.
The classification as a high-risk area is accompanied by a travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office for unnecessary tourist trips.
It makes it easier for tourists to cancel trips that have already been booked free of charge, but does not mean a travel ban.
Countries and regions with a particularly high risk of infection are classified as high-risk areas.
But it is not just the infection numbers that are decisive.
Other criteria are the speed at which the virus is spreading, the burden on the health system or a lack of data on the corona situation.
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