Bavaria in the top 3: These federal states have the most Omikron cases

Created: 01/10/2022, 11:15 AM

From: Franziska Schwarz

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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) provides new figures on the prevalence of Omikron in Germany.

Health Minister Lauterbach warns against false comparisons.

The news ticker.

• The Omikron variant is particularly infectious and spreads quickly worldwide.

• The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) * is monitoring the spread of the Corona * variant * in this country.

• Health Minister Lauterbach (SPD *) warns against transferring foreign data to Germany.

• This news ticker for Omikron in Germany * and worldwide is continuously updated.

Berlin - Within one day, the detected Omikron cases in Germany have increased by more than six percent.

The Robert Koch Institute assigns 89,464 infections to the new Corona variant in its current overview.

The authority has kept the register since calendar week 46.

For the first calendar week of the new year, the RKI expects a "high" number of late registrations.

Most cases were among 15 to 34-year-olds with 41,320, followed by 35 to 59-year-olds with 29,645.

There were 8,266 cases in the 5 to 14 year olds and 6,860 in the 60 to 79 age group.

Omikron in the individual federal states: the top 3

The RKI also breaks down the Omikron distribution regionally.

Most infections were recorded in North Rhine-Westphalia (1949), Bavaria (1582) and Baden-Württemberg (1166).

But these are only the confirmed cases.

If you add to the suspected cases, the numbers in the three federal states are significantly higher: 26,224, 20,390 and 12,239 respectively.

You will find the tables behind this link.

The RKI regards a case as confirmed if the omicron is recognized by whole genome sequencing or a variant-specific PCR test.

Omikron: Lauterbach indicates a “separate” problem

Since the discovery of the highly contagious Omicron variant in November, many countries have reported record numbers of infections.

However, this has not yet led to a corresponding increase in deaths.

This seems to confirm the findings from studies, according to which Omikron is more contagious than the previous variants, but the course of the disease is less severe.

The countries with the world's highest infection rates per 100,000 inhabitants are all in Europe: at the top Cyprus with a seven-day incidence of 3468, followed by Ireland (2840), Greece (2415), Montenegro (2371), Denmark (2362 ) and France (2137).

In Great Britain, Omikron is already the predominant variant.

In the country, there has already been an overload of the clinics - because many clinic staff were absent due to a corona infection and subsequent isolation.

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach retweeted a chart on Monday with the latest figures from Great Britain and warned against transferring the data on the “immunity wall” to Germany: “We have a special problem with older people who have not been vaccinated.” On the other hand, there are the Few of those over 65 who have not yet been vaccinated.