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Corona test offer (in Munich)
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide
seven-day incidence
on Wednesday morning as
264.6
.
This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m.
The day before, the value of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 259.0 (previous week: 236.2; previous month: 289.8).
However, 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 and transmission problems can lead to the distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently
reported 56,715 new corona infections
(previous week: 51,299) and
90 deaths
(previous week: 109) 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.
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 32,797,308 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.
The general practitioners hope that the preliminary recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) will give a new impetus to what they believe to be the current rather poor corona vaccination campaign.
After the approval of the vaccines adapted to the Omicron variant, Stiko spoke out on Tuesday for their preferred use in booster vaccinations.
Low-level vaccination campaign
"This creates trust and is a prerequisite for bringing the topic of corona vaccinations even more actively to the population," said the national chairman of the German Association of General Practitioners, Markus Beier, to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
However, Stiko still only recommends a fourth vaccination for certain groups, such as people over 60 years of age.
Although the demand for vaccinations in practices is increasing, compared to previous vaccination campaigns it is still at a rather low level, Beier complained.
So far, only “almost a quarter of those over 60” have decided to have a fourth vaccination.
In order to increase the vaccination rate, general practitioners would also need political support.
This includes, among other things, "that the vaccine deliveries are finally taking place reliably".
Even with the approval of the new vaccine adapted to the Omicron variants BA.1, BA.4 and BA.5, Beier sees no need to start up vaccination centers again.
"Parallel structures, such as those created with vaccination centers, are definitely no longer needed - especially in times when resources and money have to be saved," Beier told the editorial network Germany (RND).
Patients could receive the vaccinations from their general practitioners.
jok/dpa