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Corona test station in Thale in Saxony-Anhalt
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide
seven-day incidence
on Tuesday morning as
635.8
.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 591.9 (previous week: 458.5; previous month: 209.4).
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 142,329 new corona infections
(previous week: 123,097) and
113 deaths
(previous week: 182) 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 often comparatively high number of infections and deaths on Tuesdays can be explained by late reports of cases that were not registered at the weekend.
The RKI has counted 27,914,240 detected 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.
According to calculations by the health insurance companies, the plans of Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) for the new regulation of the corona tests lead to ever larger deficits in nursing care insurance.
This is reported by the "Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland" (RND), citing a statement by the Central Association of Health Insurance Companies on the new test regulation.
Without additional tax subsidies, the assumption of costs for corona tests in care facilities, which was extended until the end of November, would lead to additional expenditure in care insurance of around one billion euros, according to the report.
This would increase the deficit forecast for 2022 from 2.3 to 3.3 billion euros.
Additional expenses would have to be covered by higher federal loans in order to remain solvent.
"As a result, the members will have to bear the repayment by increasing the contribution rate," the health insurance companies warn.
The new test regulation stipulates, among other things, that a personal contribution of three euros will be due for corona citizen tests from Thursday.
However, tests to protect risk groups, including people in need of care, are excluded.
The regulation is intended to reduce billions in costs for the federal government, which has so far completely financed the tests.
The federal states can take over the three-euro citizen share if they decide to do so.
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