Corona pandemic
76,414 new infections reported within 24 hours – 23,444 more than last Friday
RKI reports more than 76,000 new infections
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The number of new corona infections at the RKI within one day has again reached a high. The health authorities reported 76,414 cases in 24 hours. –
The number of new corona infections within one day has reached a new high. As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Friday morning based on data from the health authorities, 76,414 new infections were registered nationwide within 24 hours. Last Friday there were 52,970. The nationwide seven-day incidence also reached a new high of 438.2.
On November 11, the threshold of 50,000 new infections was exceeded within 24 hours for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the RKI, the death toll from the pandemic in Germany rose by 357 to 100,476 on Friday. On Thursday, the number of corona deaths in Germany exceeded the threshold of 100,000.
Incidence peaked for 19th consecutive day
The seven-day incidence was 438.2, a new high for the 19th day in a row. On Thursday the incidence was 419.7, on Friday last week it was 340.7.
The seven-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week. On November 8, the value in Germany had passed the threshold of 200 and thus the previous high since the beginning of the pandemic in December 2020 (197.6). Since then, new highs have been recorded every day.
On November 18, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening the corona measures. This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are in hospital within seven days because of a corona infection. According to the RKI, the nationwide hospitalization incidence on Thursday was 5.79.
RKI is increasingly registering corona outbreaks in schools
According to the RKI, the total number of registered cases of infection in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic rose to 5,650,170. The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 4,775,300.
In its weekly report, the RKI referred, among other things, to the rapid increase in corona outbreaks in schools. In the four weeks up to November 21, 1265 outbreaks were recorded in schools.