Corona in Germany: Incidence skyrockets after communion celebrations - one week ago it was still at zero

The number of new corona infections in Germany continues to increase.

The incidence is increasing.

In one district, the value has skyrocketed.

All information in the news ticker.

• The Corona * situation in Germany shows a worrying trend.

• The number of reported new corona infections continues to grow.

• The news ticker for the corona pandemic in Germany.

Berlin - The Robert Koch Institute * (RKI) reports 546 new corona infections within one day.

This comes from data from the RKI Covid 19 dashboard on Monday morning.

For comparison: a week ago on Monday, 324 corona cases were recorded.

According to the RKI, the 7-day incidence * nationwide is 10.3 (previous day: 10).

Corona in Germany: RKI reports 546 new infections

The incidence has so far been the basis for many corona restrictions in the pandemic, for example as part of the federal emergency brake that expired at the end of June.

In the future, other values ​​such as hospital admissions are to be taken into account to a greater extent.

• Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, 3,745,227 people in Germany have been shown to have been infected with Sars-CoV-2.

• So far 91,363 deaths related to Corona have been registered.

• The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 3,640,100.

Corona in Germany: First district over 60s incidence

In the district of Birkenfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate) the incidence has skyrocketed.

According to the RKI, the value on Monday was 65.3.

A week ago, the value in the region was still zero.

Then on July 16 for the third day in a row above the critical 35 incidence.

The corona rules have been tightened.

Since July 18, the number of people is limited to 350 indoors and 500 outdoors.

In the schools in the national park district of Birkenfeld, the mask requirement applies again in class, the district reports on its website.

The corona measures affect around 80,830 residents.

A communion celebration in Birkenfeld has evidently developed into a superspreader event, reports the ZDF. At least eleven people were infected with Corona in a very short time. Then the incidence skyrocketed. According to the RKI, 53 corona cases have been recorded in the past seven days - as of July 19. The district of Birkenfeld thus has the highest value in all of Germany.

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