How bad is the corona wave at the moment?
RKI numbers difficult to compare
Created: 05/10/2022 10:44 am
By: Jennifer Lanzinger
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The corona numbers in Germany remain at a high level, and the RKI again reports more than 100,000 infections.
But how meaningful are the current numbers?
Berlin - The corona pandemic in Germany seems to be slowly but surely abating in the past few weeks. On Monday, May 9, 2022, the Robert Koch Institute reported a corona incidence below the 500 mark.
However, the incidence is now increasing again.
As the RKI emphasizes, the incidence does not currently provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports increasing incidence again
The RKI gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Tuesday morning as 522.7.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 499.2 (previous week: 632.3 previous month: 1097.9).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
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.
In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
Corona numbers are difficult to compare in a weekly comparison
However, the number of infections recorded within 24 hours has fallen slightly in a weekly comparison.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 107,568 new corona infections (previous week: 113,522 registered infections) and 218 deaths (previous week: 240) to the RKI within one day.
Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 25,406,868 proven 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.
According to a study, the risk of infection with the corona virus also depends on your own blood group.
A blood group therefore tends towards the superspreader.
