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The
seven-day incidence
of new corona infections in Germany has again reached a high.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it was 1465.4
nationwide on Thursday morning
.
It was 1450.8 on Wednesday and 1283.2 on Thursday of last week.
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 Thursday morning was
247,862
– after 234,250 on Wednesday and 236,120 on Thursday last week.
As the RKI further announced,
238 other deaths
in connection with the corona virus were also recorded on Thursday.
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 11,769,540 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 119,453.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 8,478,100.
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
6.07
on Wednesday .
Debate on Lauterbach's statement
In connection with the fatalities of the pandemic, there is criticism of a statement by Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).
On Tuesday evening on ZDF, he again warned against premature relaxation of the corona measures.
If Germany were to follow Israel's path with no measures, Germany would have a higher death rate.
"I just can't imagine that we would be in a situation, so late in the pandemic, where we have good vaccinations, where we would then have 400, 500 deaths a day," said the Minister of Health.
Ethics Council member Stephan Rixen told the ZDFheute.de portal on Wednesday that "threat scenarios in the dark could not justify restrictions on fundamental rights".
Rixen continues: »Interferences with fundamental rights must be based on comprehensible forecasts of the further development of the pandemic.
If it is not clear how the number of people who probably die because of easing of restrictions came about, then it is also not clear why restrictions on freedom should continue to be necessary."
Thorsten Lehr, head of the Covid 19 simulator at Saarland University, told ZDFheute.de that 500 corona deaths per day were possible under certain conditions: "According to our simulations, 400 to 500 deaths per day are seven days -Cut possible if the incidences in the peak are above 3500 to 4000.«
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