Corona virus in Germany: seven-day incidence rises to 584.4 – more than 100,000 new infections for the first time

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The number of new corona infections in Germany has exceeded the 100,000 mark per day for the first time: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of

in the past 24 hours on Wednesday morning as

.

The day before the value was 74,405, a week ago it was 80,430.

It was a new daily high.

As the RKI further announced on Wednesday, the

rose to

– also a new high.

On Tuesday the value was 553.2, a week ago it was 407.5.

The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.

It is the sixth day in a row with a new high.

The RKI also registered

related to the corona virus.

The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany thus increases to 116,081.

According to the latest RKI information, the health authorities have recorded a total of 8,186,850 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.

The institute put the number of people in Germany who had recovered from an illness caused by the coronavirus at around 7,098,400.

Other large European countries have been struggling with six-digit infection numbers for some time because of the omicron variant of the virus.

France recorded almost half a million new cases on Tuesday and Italy more than 228,000.

Spain, on the other hand, reported declining numbers for the first time since the beginning of November with around 94,400 infections.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach says he expects the omicron wave in Germany to peak in a few weeks.

"I believe that we will reach the peak of the wave in mid-February, and then the number of cases could fall again, but we have not yet reached the peak," said the SPD politician on Tuesday evening on RTL Direkt.

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