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The seven-day incidence in Germany rose for the sixth day in a row.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Monday morning as 74.4.
For comparison: the previous day the value was 72.7, a week ago it was 66.5 (previous month: 72.0).
The health authorities in Germany reported 4056 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.
This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:07 a.m.
A week ago the value was 3111 infections.
On Monday morning the numbers are usually significantly lower than on other working days.
This is due to the delayed reporting of the weekend cases.
According to the new information, ten deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
A week ago there were seven deaths.
The RKI has counted 4,377,845 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days - the most important parameter for a possible tightening of the corona restrictions - was given by the RKI on Friday as 2.02 (Thursday 1.93).
A nationwide threshold value from when the situation can be viewed critically is not provided for the incidence of hospitalization, among other things because of large regional differences.
The previous high was around 15.5 around Christmas time.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 4,155,000.
The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 94,628.
Lots of infections among young people
At the weekend, the German Society for Child and Adolescent Medicine launched a call to children and adolescents from the age of twelve to be vaccinated against Corona.
"Now that data has been collected from over ten million children and adolescents, I recommend vaccination to over 12 year olds in general and unreservedly. I advertise it as urgently as I do with adults," said Association President Jörg Dötsch of the German editorial network.
The risk-benefit assessment is clearly in favor of vaccination.
On Friday, the RKI reported a particularly large number of corona infections among children and adolescents in individual regions of Germany.
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