Corona: RKI reports current figures - hospitalization incidence continues to increase unabated

Created: 03/30/2022, 07:22

By: Jennifer Lanzinger

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The corona pandemic was not losing momentum in Germany at the end of March.

The RKI is now reporting a further increase in the incidence of hospitalization.

The news ticker.

• The RKI reports a slightly falling corona incidence on Wednesday.

• The hospitalization value increases during this time.

• This news ticker about the corona pandemic* is continuously updated.

Berlin – The corona pandemic has picked up speed again in Germany in the past few weeks.

More than 250,000 people are still infected every day.

While the corona measures are being relaxed in many places, the RKI has recorded almost 350 deaths in one day.

Corona: RKI reports current figures - hospitalization incidence continues to increase unabated

As reported by the Robert Koch Institute on Wednesday, the nationwide seven-day incidence has fallen somewhat.

The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Wednesday morning as 1663.0.

For comparison: the day before the value was 1703.3.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1734.2 (previous month: 1171.9).

Meanwhile, the number of new infections remains high.

The health authorities in Germany reported 268,477 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

A week ago there were 283,732 infections.

When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual states do not report data every weekday, and Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg, for example, do not report data at the weekend.

This in turn leads to late registrations on the following days.

A comparison of daily values ​​is therefore becoming increasingly difficult.

In addition, experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI - due to overworked health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done.

Only these count in the statistics.

RKI counts almost 350 deaths in one day - Corona hospitalization incidence exceeds the 7 mark

According to the new information, 348 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 329 deaths.

The number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 7.07 (Monday: 6.94) according to the RKI on Tuesday.

Here, too, there are days with incomplete reports.

The value also includes many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.