Corona in Germany: Incidence continues to fall - RKI responds with a new recommendation
Created: 05/06/2022 05:07
By: Martina Lippl
The corona situation in Germany is easing noticeably.
The incidence has dropped to 632.
The RKI only recommends five days of corona isolation.
Berlin – The official Corona registration data have gaps.
The daily updated values are increasingly difficult to compare.
But the corona numbers continue to go down.
The nationwide seven-day incidence is now 632.2 (previous day 639.5; previous month: 1457.9).
Within one day, 113,522 new corona infections and a further 240 deaths were recorded.
This emerges from the data from the Covid 19 dashboard of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Tuesday morning.
1,311 Covid-19 patients currently have to be treated in the intensive care units in Germany.
Of these, 490 are artificially ventilated.
Most recently, in October 2021, there were so few patients with a corona infection in an intensive care unit.
This emerges from the data of the DIVI intensive care register (as of May 3, 6:28 a.m.).
Corona in Germany: RKI reports incidence of 632.2 (as of May 3, 2022)
Corona incidence on May 3, 2022 | 632.2 |
|---|---|
Corona new infections | 113,522 |
Deaths related to Sars-CoV-2 | 240 |
hospitalization incidence | 4.26 (as of May 2nd) |
Covid-19 patients in an intensive care unit in Germany | 1,311 (as of May 3, 6:21 a.m.) |
active corona cases in Germany | 76,100 |
The RKI has counted 24,927,339 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.
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, 135,701 people in Germany have demonstrably died with or from corona.
Corona in Germany: RKI only recommends five days of corona isolation
The RKI published new guidelines on isolation and quarantine in the case of a Sars-CoV-2 infection on Monday evening:
infected | contact persons |
|---|---|
For people who have been proven to be positive: | Contact persons (e.g. household, school) |
ARRANGEMENT for isolation for 5 days | URGENT RECOMMENDATION Reduce contacts independently, especially with risk groups for a severe course of the disease! |
Urgent RECOMMENDATION for repeated (self-) testing starting after day 5 with an antigen rapid test*. Self-isolation until test negative. | Urgent RECOMMENDATION for daily (self-) testing with an antigen rapid test* |
Stricter rules apply to employees in the healthcare sector as well as in old people's and nursing homes as well as outpatient nursing facilities: Before resuming work, infected people should carry out a rapid antigen test or a PCR test after five days and after 48 hours "free of symptoms".
Contact persons are recommended to be tested daily at least five days before starting work.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach confirmed that the isolation should continue to be ordered by the health authorities.
Contact persons of infected people should be strongly recommended in the future to reduce contacts for five days.
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