The confusion of numbers has cleared: For the first time in three weeks, the district office has published the corona case numbers for individual municipalities.
There is still some confusion about incidence.
District - three weeks of incorrect corona numbers, three weeks of uncertainty, three weeks of criticism: the data breach about unreliable infection numbers in the district office is now over.
Our numbers are correct again, the district administration reported yesterday.
The 7-day incidence is currently 166.92.
A few days may pass before the wrong values at the State Office for Health and Food Safety, LGL for short, and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) are correct.
All duplications and multiple entries have been removed, the district office's infection numbers are correct, the authority said.
The total number of registered infections has been corrected from 10,213 cases (as of Tuesday) to 10,057 (Wednesday).
District Administrator is "infinitely grateful" to employees
The district office yesterday calculated a 7-day incidence of 166.92.
The numbers are certainly correct, said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU), relieved.
585 people became infected with the virus in the past seven days.
The information from the RKI and LGL are still incorrect because they still contain incorrect data records.
In the coming days, however, they should also be correct, said Goebel.
Around 20 employees have worked through 10,000 data records by hand in the past ten days.
Case by case, sometimes "until late at night," says the district administrator.
He is aware of what triggered the data chaos.
He is "infinitely grateful" to the employees.
"The incidence leaps like a billy goat"
Yesterday the RKI reported a 7-day incidence of 191. Accordingly, the district scratched the decisive mark of 200. The value of the RKI is so important because the people in the district will have to take drastic measures if the mark is reached: the 15-kilometer rule, for example.
The population was all the more surprised at the mess of numbers in the district office.
“The incidence leaps like a billy goat,” commented a Facebook user under a post by Münchner Merkur.
Multiple entries in the three-digit range
Until Wednesday, the district administration was also at a loss: on Tuesday, employees considered the 7-day incidence of 181 (value of the LGL) to be "plausible".
Should mean: We don't know.
The day before, the state authority reported a value of 108. Too few data records have been recorded at the LGL in the past few days, district spokeswoman Christine Spiegel announced on Tuesday.
This would have led to the sudden increase.
The total number of infections with the corona virus, however, was "still too high" on Tuesday, said Spiegel.
In the data of the district administration there were still “multiple versions in the low three-digit range”.
Anyone who still knew their way around the district office deserved an honorary award.
Bavarian Order of Merit category.
A system change at the beginning of the year is to blame for the debacle (we reported).
Since January 1st, all laboratories in Germany have to report positive corona cases via the uniform "Demis" system.
The program did not work correctly with the system used by the district office.
Here was the root of the problem.
By the way: Until the end of 2020, the transmission was still via email.
And fax.
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