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Intensive care unit in Ludwigsburg: the number of infections continues to rise
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The health authorities in Germany reported 8,103 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 96 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
That comes from numbers of the RKI from Sunday.
The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard from 3.11 a.m., subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.
On Sunday, the number of cases reported by the RKI is usually lower, among other things because fewer tests are carried out on the weekend.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 7,890 new infections and 157 new deaths within one day.
According to the RKI, the number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 66.1 nationwide on Sunday morning - and thus slightly higher than the previous day (65.6).
The number of new infections in Germany fell significantly for weeks in January and February.
Recently, however, it stagnated, which is probably also due to the spread of more contagious variants.
More than 2.5 million detected infections
Four weeks ago, on February 7th, the incidence had been 76.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The high of 1,244 newly reported deaths was reached on January 14th.
In the case of new infections registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reached on December 18 with 33,777 - but it contained 3,500 late reports.
The RKI has counted 2,500,182 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 2,304,300.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 71,900.
According to the RKI situation report on Saturday, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 1.06 (previous day 1.04).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 106 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
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