Corona situation: RKI records 22,214 new infections on Christmas Eve

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RKI recorded 22,214 new infections on Christmas Eve

An employee of a corona test center is getting ready for the smear test – the number of corona cases is falling in Germany, but occupancy in hospitals remains high

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The nationwide seven-day incidence fell again compared to the previous day. The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Saturday morning as 242.9.

The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has fallen again. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Saturday morning, the value was 242.9. The day before it was still at 265.8, a week ago at 321.8. As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 22,214 new infections were recorded within 24 hours.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the health authorities have reported a total of 6,981,281 cases. The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 6,087,300. The total number of corona deaths in Germany rose by 157 to 110,276.

The seven-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week. The value rose rapidly from the beginning of November. As a result, new highs were recorded every day. The number has been falling again since December.

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Worry about another wave of infections from Omikron

In the government, however, there are major concerns about another wave of infections due to the spread of the much more contagious Omicron variant. According to the latest RKI weekly report from Thursday, the variant has now been proven in all federal states.

The RKI also warned that “less test and reporting activity” can be expected during the holidays and at the turn of the year. Accordingly, the official data could only provide an “incomplete picture of the epidemiological situation” in Germany.

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11.2 million infected total
New infections per day: 88,000, and the trend is rising
Vaccination rate: 75 percent
The United Kingdom is one of the countries most affected by the corona pandemic in Europe. The highly contagious omicron variant is now widespread there. France is already closing its border with the British Isles and in Germany, too, the chairman of the conference of health ministers, Bavaria’s head of department, Klaus Holetschek, is calling for travel restrictions for Great Britain. “I would like the federal government to take a closer look at when Great Britain becomes a virus variant area and that a PCR test must be submitted when entering the country by plane,” said the CSU politician.

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In November, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive yardstick 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.

From a value of three, the 2G rule applies across the board for events in a federal state – that is, only those vaccinated against the coronavirus and those recovered from Covid-19 are allowed. According to the RKI, the nationwide hospitalization incidence on Thursday was 4.55.

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