Lower than it has been for four months: Corona incidence falls below 500 – but it is increasing in two federal states
Created: 05/13/2022, 10:12 am
By: Marc Dimitriu
Corona hardly restricts any more: Many Munich residents enjoy the bright day, here on Sendlinger Straße.
© IMAGO / Wolfgang Maria Weber
The corona numbers continue to fall and have fallen below 500 for the first time since January 11. In two federal states, however, the trend is going in a different direction.
Berlin – The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Friday morning as 485.7.
The previous day the value was 502.4 (previous week: 553.2; previous month: 1044.7).
The incidence has therefore fallen below 500 for the first time since January 11. The value fell in 14 out of 16 federal states.
The incidence increased only in Hamburg and Berlin.
RKI: Corona numbers difficult to determine - dark figure unknown
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.
New corona infections and deaths are also falling lower than a week ago
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 68,999 new corona infections to the RKI, which is the lowest daily value since January 14.
There were also 164 deaths (previous week: 214) 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, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
(md with dpa)
