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According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),
the number of known cases of
infection in Germany has increased by
46,514
cases to over 32.6 million within a day.
That's 4,457 more cases than Thursday last week, when 42,057 cases were reported.
The
seven-day incidence
rises to
244.4
from 236.2 the previous day.
The RKI records
230 more deaths
related to the corona virus.
The known total is 148,728.
In general, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections.
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.
Comparisons of the data are also only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations and 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.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an end to the corona pandemic is in sight.
"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
He called on the international community to seize this opportunity and step up efforts to fight the pandemic.
According to Tedros, the number of new deaths worldwide related to the corona virus had fallen to its lowest level since March 2020 in the past week.
The number of new infections falls by twelve percent
"We're not there yet," emphasized the WHO chief at the same time.
He compared the pandemic to a marathon.
"Now is the worst time to stop running," Tedros warned.
"If we don't seize this opportunity, we risk new variants, more deaths, more worries and more uncertainties."
The WHO published several recommendations to help countries to further contain the virus.
These include, for example, full vaccination of risk groups, including health workers and the elderly, as well as further regular testing.
According to the latest WHO report, the number of new corona infections worldwide in the week from August 29 to September 4 fell by twelve percent compared to the previous week to around 4.2 million.
However, the number of unreported cases is probably much higher, as cases often go unreported and many countries have also reduced their testing capacities.
On September 4, the WHO still registered over 600 million officially confirmed new infections – this figure is also likely to be far below the actual number, as is the official number of 6.4 million deaths caused by the pandemic worldwide.
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