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Intensive care unit in Ludwigsburg
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The number of new corona infections and the incidence have reached further highs.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of
new infections
in the past 24 hours on Friday morning as
248,838
.
This exceeded the previous high of 236,120 from the previous day.
Meanwhile, the
seven-day incidence
on Friday was
1349.5
, well above the previous record of 1283.2 the day before.
As the RKI also announced,
170 other deaths
related to the corona virus were recorded on Friday.
On Friday a week ago, the health authorities nationwide reported 190,148 new infections.
The incidence was 1073.0 a week ago.
The indicator quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of
10,671,602 cases of infection
since the beginning of the pandemic .
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 118,504.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 7,953,200.
In November, the federal and state governments had defined the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening or relaxing 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, the
hospitalization incidence
on Thursday was
5.00
nationwide and thus higher than it has been since Christmas.
Significantly increased positive rate in the tests
In the most recent weekly report on Thursday, the RKI pointed out that 41 percent of the reported corona tests in Germany last week were positive.
In the previous week it was still 32 percent.
Due to the "massive" increase in "infection pressure", there have long been fears that the registered infection numbers do not reflect the actual infection process.
The RKI explained: "Even if not every individual case is recorded in the reporting system", additional indicators "a reliable assessment of the overall development" is possible.
For the assessment of the current situation of the pandemic, "the focus is not on recording all infections by Sars-CoV-2, but on the development of the number and severity of the diseases".
The load on the intensive care units, meanwhile, shows "no rising trend caused by the omicron wave." With data as of February 2nd, 2307 people with a COVID-19 diagnosis were treated in an intensive care unit.
In the previous week there were 2363 intensive care patients.
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