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The incidence of new corona infections in Germany has again reached a high.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day incidence on Tuesday morning as 894.3.
On Monday the value was 840.3, on Tuesday last week it was 553.2.
The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
According to data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours was 126,955 on Tuesday – after 63,393 the day before and 74,405 on Tuesday last week.
As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 214 new deaths related to the corona virus were counted on Monday.
According to the latest information from the institute, the health authorities have recorded a total of 8,871,795 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 116,960.
The RKI puts the number of people in Germany who have recovered from an illness caused by the coronavirus at around 7,331,200.
In November, the federal and state governments had defined the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening the corona measures.
This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are hospitalized within seven days because of a corona infection.
According to the latest RKI report on Monday, the hospitalization incidence nationwide was 3.87.
Söder criticizes the lack of rule changes in the round
The round of heads of government of the federal states and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) agreed on Monday evening to stick to the previous protective measures despite the sharp increase in the number of infections.
In addition, clinic staff and high-risk patients should be given priority in PCR tests.
However, the exact regulations for this still have to be worked out.
The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) was dissatisfied after the top meeting.
Söder said in the ARD "Tagesthemen" that it was "unsatisfactory because we only postponed it again".
In particular, he criticized the looming shortage of PCR tests.
"We were surprised and annoyed," Söder continued.
It is "not a strong sign for logistics and material procurement in Germany".
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The prioritization of the PCR tests that has now been decided means that from this point on the government has “no idea” “how high the number of infections really is”. Since the highly contagious omicron variant is apparently less aggressive than earlier variants, it will no longer be a question of “solving everything by locking up,” said the Prime Minister, as was the case last year. “We have to think of a smarter way.” The motto is: “Caution yes, but with a sense of proportion”.
At RTL, Söder defended his intention to take back corona rules in Bavaria, among other things in sports and culture.
"Omicron isn't Delta, and that's why you can't take the same measures as Delta." At the moment, Bavaria often has stricter rules than other countries.
He does not intend to relax everything in Bavaria, "but we will adapt if, for example, the courts tell us that you have to find another way in retail, we will compensate for that if 2G does not work, with the FFP2 obligation". .
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