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Corona intensive care unit of the University Hospital Essen (archive image)
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For the end of February, many virus experts expect the corona numbers to ease slowly.
However, there can be no question of this at the moment.
Instead, the
seven-day incidence
of new infections hit another high.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it was 1450.8
nationwide on Wednesday morning
.
On Tuesday it was 1441.0, on Wednesday last week it was 1227.5.
The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, the number of
new infections
within 24 hours on Wednesday morning was
234,250
– after 208,498 on Wednesday last week.
As the RKI also announced,
272 other deaths
related to the corona virus were recorded on Wednesday.
According to the institute, the health authorities have recorded
a total of 11,521,678 cases of infection
since the beginning of the pandemic .
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 119,215.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 8,373,900.
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
nationwide was 5.60
on Tuesday
.
The head of the German Hospital Society (DKG), Gerald Gass, has given the all-clear for German hospitals in view of the omicron wave.
"I currently no longer expect the German healthcare system to be overburdened in the coming weeks," Gass told the "Bild" newspaper.
In view of the apparently less dangerous omicron variant of the corona virus, calls for relaxation of the corona restrictions for children and schools are increasing.
General practitioners are calling for a concrete opening plan
In the past few weeks, Gass had repeatedly warned that the exploding number of infections could overload the health system.
A decisive reason why things turned out differently are the current corona measures.
These would have "significantly contributed to the fact that the feared wave was not as high as feared," said Gass.
He advocated keeping the measures in place until the peak of the omicron wave, which the federal government expects in a week or two.
According to Gass, after the apex, politicians could "without a doubt envisage gradual easing for the coming weeks".
The German General Practitioners Association emphasized its demands for a concrete opening plan.
“Politics must already develop a concept of how the opening steps should look in concrete terms,” said Federal Chairman Ulrich Weigeldt to the newspapers of the editorial network Germany.
Weigeldt continues: “What must not happen is that hectically inconsistent and not well thought-out relaxation measures are decided on.” More corona patients are currently appearing in the practices, but the courses are significantly milder.
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