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Intensive care unit: more and more corona sufferers have to be admitted
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The number of people who have to be treated in an intensive care unit with Covid-19 has increased again.
As of Wednesday, their number is 1330, writes the Robert Koch Institute in its Corona weekly report.
The RKI relies on figures from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI).
A week earlier there were 1238 patients in intensive care units.
The number of deaths has also increased, albeit only slightly so far.
Rhinoviruses also circulate
According to the weekly report, the number of people who see a doctor because of an acute respiratory disease also remains high.
In the past week, 1.2 million visits to the doctor were recorded for this reason.
In adults, the number is up to three times higher than usual at this time of year.
The RKI attributes the high number to the fact that, in addition to Sars-CoV-2, rhino and parainfluenza viruses are also circulating.
Sars-CoV-2 dominates in adults.
According to the calculations, the number of people infected with corona with symptoms nationwide was 1 to 1.6 million in the past week – that is even higher than last reported.
So far it has been 800,000 to 1.3 million.
The nationwide seven-day incidence continued to rise slightly compared to the previous week, especially among those aged 70 and over.
Significantly more outbreaks were again registered in medical treatment facilities and in old people’s and nursing homes.
According to the RKI, the vast majority of infections can be traced back to the omicron subline BA.5, which has been dominant since mid-June, and the subtypes assigned to it.
Their share of the analyzed samples is now 87 percent, other variants have been almost completely eliminated, according to the weekly report.
The BA.2 subline BA.2.75, which is spreading in India and some other regions, has so far been detected four times in samples in Germany.
RKI recommends second booster vaccination
The RKI again emphasizes the importance of vaccinations.
Unvaccinated people in all age groups would have a significantly higher risk of a severe course of Covid.
"In particular, risk groups and very old people over the age of 70 should also protect themselves against a serious illness with the 2nd booster vaccination recommended by the Standing Vaccination Committee (Stiko)."
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