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Corona test in Bavaria
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide
seven-day incidence
on Wednesday morning at
691.8
.
This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 702.4 (previous week: 678.8; previous month: 331.8).
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 the distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently
reported 127,611 new infections
(previous week: 130,728) and
104 deaths
(previous week: 122) 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 and transmission problems.
Number of sick leave increases
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 29,308,100 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.
Despite the current drop this Wednesday.
According to a newspaper report, the number of corona infections, which has been increasing again for weeks, is now also reflected in sick leave.
After a low of 63 unable to work per 10,000 insured persons in the 22nd calendar week, the number rose to 97 per 10,000 insured persons in the 25th calendar week.
This is reported by the editorial network Germany from current data from the Barmer health insurance company.
jok/dpa
