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Corona rapid test (symbol image): in future only free for some groups of people
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide
seven-day incidence
on Saturday morning as
632.9
.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 618.2 (previous week: 445.1; previous month: 281.8).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI - mainly because by far not all infected people have a PCR test done.
Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics.
In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently
reported 89,336 new corona infections
(previous week: 80,264) and
84 deaths
(previous week: 58) to the RKI within one day.
Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 27,771,111 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
Despite the increasing numbers, free rapid corona tests will only be available for risk groups in the future.
For everyone else, "citizen tests" will cost three euros in the future.
This was announced by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach on Friday.
The new test regulation is to apply from June 30th.
He would have liked to continue free citizen tests for everyone, said the SPD politician.
In view of the costs of an average of one billion euros per month, the federal government can no longer afford this in the tight budget situation.
bbr/dpa
