Corona in Germany: Incidence continues to rise - RKI reports over 140,000 infections
Created: 06/28/2022, 08:39
By: Martina Lippl
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The RKI reports that the corona incidence in Germany has risen to 635.8.
The number of known new infections is 142,329.
Berlin – A look at the Corona situation currently looks sobering.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide
7-day incidence
on Tuesday morning as
635.8
(previous day: 591.9, previous week: 458.5; previous month: 209.4).
142,329 new corona infections
(previous week: 123,097) and 113 deaths (previous week: 182) were reported to the RKI by the health authorities within one day.
Of course, the numbers do not provide a complete picture of the current infection process in Germany.
According to experts, the number of unreported cases is large.
Many infected people no longer do a PCR test.
But only positive PCR tests are included in the statistics.
There may also be late reports and thus daily fluctuations.
"For the assessment of the course, the consideration of the weekly comparison is more effective," says the RKI website.
A detailed assessment of the epidemiological situation was carried out in the weekly report on Thursday.
Corona situation in Germany: Omicron subvariant BA.5 prevails
However, the incidence in all age groups increased significantly compared to the previous week, can be read in the most recent RKI weekly report (June 23).
And the omicron subtypes BA.4 and BA.5.
prevail in Germany.
With around 50 percent, BA.5 is now the dominant variant in this country.
British scientists are worried about the new omicron subvariants.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports 142,329 new coronavirus infections (as of June 28, 2022)
New coronavirus infections within 24 hours | 142,329 |
|---|---|
Nationwide incidence | 635.8 |
Deaths related to Corona | 113 |
Covid-19 patients in intensive care, according to the DIVI intensive care register | 918 – 285 of them have to be artificially ventilated (as of June 28, 7:05 a.m.) |
Covid-19: This is the situation in the intensive care units
The summer wave is making itself felt in the intensive care units in Germany.
The number of corona intensive care patients is increasing.
918 Covid 19 patients have to be treated in an intensive care unit, 285 of them are artificially ventilated.
This emerges from the data of the DIVI intensive care register (as of June 28, 7:05 a.m.).
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