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Corona crisis: RKI reports almost 10,500 new infections

2021-02-06T10:49:18.736Z


In Germany, 10,485 new corona cases were recorded within 24 hours. In addition, the Robert Koch Institute counted 689 other deaths in connection with coronavirus infections.


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Corona rapid test in Baden-Württemberg

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The German health authorities reported 10,485 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.

In addition, 689 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, according to figures from the RKI on Saturday.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 12,321 new infections and 794 new deaths within 24 hours.

The high of 1,244 new reported deaths was reached on January 14.

Among the new infections registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reported on December 18, at 33,777 - but this included 3500 late reports.

The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 77.3 on Saturday morning, according to the RKI.

Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.

Most federal states continue to record falling seven-day incidences, according to the RKI.

The goal of the federal government is to push the value below 50.

According to a decision by the federal and state governments, the current corona shutdown throughout Germany will initially apply until February 14th.

Next Wednesday, the country leaders want to discuss with Chancellor Angela Merkel how to proceed in the fight against the pandemic.

It is still unclear whether the shutdown will be extended, possibly tightened, or whether it will be eased for the first time.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 2,275,394 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of midnight).

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher as many infections are not detected.

The total number of people who died with or with the involvement of a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 61,286, according to the RKI.

According to the information, the number of people recovered was around 2,020,900.

The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.93 according to the RKI situation report from Friday evening (previous day 0.89).

This means that 100 infected people infect 93 other people.

The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.

If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.

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Source: spiegel

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