Corona in Germany: Incidence continues to rise - number of PCR tests decreases significantly and leads to problems

Created: 04/22/2022, 08:19

By: Marc Dimitriu

Hanover: An advertising poster "Here as before, PCR tests for everyone!" is hanging on Aegidientorplatz.

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After the Easter holidays, more corona cases will be reported again.

This is probably due to the many late registrations.

However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get reliable figures.

Berlin – The seven-day incidence in Germany has risen again compared to the previous day.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave it 733.4 on Friday morning (April 22).

For comparison: the day before the value was 720.6.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1001.5 (previous month: 1733.4).

Corona in Germany: Incidence increases again after reporting stops

The health authorities in Germany reported 161,718 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

A week ago there were 156,864 registered infections.

According to the new information, 289 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 212 deaths.

The RKI gave the hospitalization incidence on Thursday at 4.24 (Wednesday at 3.71).

Here, too, there are days with incomplete reports.

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

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

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.

Fewer and fewer PCR tests carried out: Only half as many tests before Easter

The RKI weekly report also shows that fewer and fewer PCR tests have recently been carried out in more than 200 laboratories nationwide, on which the official statistics are based: After the number in March was sometimes significantly more than 2 million per week, it was in the week before Easter only around 1.1 million.

The significant decline is also due to the Good Friday holiday, writes the RKI.

According to the report, more than every second test (around 55 percent) was positive, which is about as much as in March.

Priority is given to testing people with symptoms.