Corona incidence falls for the second day in a row

Created: 2022-02-14Updated: 2022-02-14 05:13

The health authorities reported 76,465 new infections to the RKI within one day.

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Also today the seven-day incidence is lower than the day before.

However, it is unclear whether this really means a turnaround in the infection process.

Berlin - The nationwide seven-day incidence has fallen for the second day in a row - although the meaningfulness of the data is currently limited.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week on Monday morning as 1459.8.

The day before, the value had fallen for the first time since the end of December and was 1466.5.

It is difficult to judge whether this really means a turnaround in the infection process in Germany.

It could also be that the decline in incidence does not reflect the actual occurrence of infection, but is the result of an overloaded reporting and testing system.

Only PCR tests appear in statistics

Among other things, it could also play a role that some people do not have their positive self-test or rapid test clarified with a PCR test.

They will then not appear in the statistics.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1426.0 (previous month: 470.6).

The health authorities in Germany reported 76,465 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m.

A week ago there were 95,267 infections.

According to the new information, 42 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 49 deaths.

The RKI has counted 12,421,126 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.

The number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 6.46 according to the RKI on Friday (Thursday: 6.23).

These may also include people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.

No data on hospital admissions will be published at the weekend.

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Monday as 8,838,800.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 119,977.

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