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The
seven-day incidence
of new corona infections in Germany has fallen again.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it was 1385.1
nationwide on Thursday morning
.
It was 1401.0 on Wednesday and 1465.4 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
235,626
.
On Wednesday, however, significantly fewer new infections were reported at 219,972.
On Thursday last week the value was 247,862.
However, the numbers are only of limited significance at the moment.
Experts assume that there are many cases that are not recorded in the RKI data.
Test capacities and health authorities are therefore at the limit in many places, and contacts are only tracked to a limited extent.
In addition, the number of people who no longer have their infection confirmed by a PCR test is likely to increase – the infection is therefore not included in the official statistics.
As the RKI further announced,
261 other deaths
in connection with the corona virus were also recorded on Thursday.
Hospitalization incidence is slowly decreasing
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 13,035,941 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 120,728.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 9,320,700.
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 6.04 on Wednesday.
A week ago it was 6.07.
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