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The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has again decreased slightly.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Thursday morning, the value was 422.3.
The day before it was 427.0, a week ago it was 439.2.
The RKI initially stated the incidence as 338.1 early Thursday morning, but later corrected the information.
As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 70,611 new infections were recorded within 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the health authorities have reported a total of 6,362,232 cases.
The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 5,278,300.
The total number of corona deaths in Germany rose by 465 to 104,512.
For comparison: 69,601 new infections and 527 deaths were reported on Wednesday, 73,209 new infections and 388 deaths a week ago.
When evaluating the infection rate, it should be borne in mind that experts are currently assuming a noticeable underreporting.
Health authorities and clinics can no longer keep up with reporting cases, at least in individual regions.
On November 18, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive yardstick for tightening the corona measures.
This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are in hospital within seven days because of a corona infection.
According to the RKI, the nationwide hospitalization incidence on Wednesday was 5.79.
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