Corona in Germany: RKI reports more deaths than ever before - but numbers cause confusion

The number of infections with the coronavirus continues to rise.

Now the RKI has reported a sad record and more fatalities than ever before.

But the numbers cause confusion.

Berlin - The

virus * continues to rage in

, now apparently a new high of

even been

reached

in

.

As the

on

, citing the health authorities, there have been 1244 corona deaths in Germany within the past 24 hours.

But now the

is causing

confusion.

Coronavirus in Germany: RKI publishes a sad record - but numbers cause confusion

The previous sad Corona record was also very high last Friday with 1,188 people.

But shortly after the RKI published the

, they disappeared from the

.

In the meantime, some values, including the 1,244 corona deaths * in the past few hours, were no longer displayed.

As the dpa reports, the

has not yet been available for a statement.

Corona in Germany: The number of new infections continues to rise rapidly

In parallel with the sad record of the Robert Koch Institute reported a total death toll of around 43,881 persons with or at the

have died.

According to the RKI, the

number of

increasing by a further 25,164 people.

According to official information, 1,978,590 people in Germany tested positive for the corona virus *.

The seven-day incidence * on Thursday is therefore 151.2.

The value is the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

The goal of the

is to push this value below 50.