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Status: 07/23/2021 5:35 a.m.
The RKI reported 2089 new infections in the morning. The seven-day incidence rose to 13.2. UK introduces daily corona testing in the food sector. All developments in the live blog.
05:35 am
Intensive care physicians demand more vaccination speed because of the Delta variant
Intensive care physicians are calling for the vaccination rate to be increased in order to better control a fourth wave with the highly contagious Delta variant. “The most important thing is that as many as possible get fully vaccinated. This is our most effective remedy against the pandemic. This is the only way to weaken the fourth wave,” says the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Gernot Marx. the newspapers of the Funke media group. To be prepared against the delta wave, a vaccination rate of 85 percent is necessary. Marx is concerned because around ten million people in Germany are not fully vaccinated and 32 million are not vaccinated at all.
04:33 am
Highest value since recording: 19 new corona cases at the Olympics
On the day of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the organizers published 19 more corona cases. This is the highest value since the tests began to be recorded on July 1st. This increased the number of positive tests to a total of 106. As the organizing committee announced in the daily report published on Friday, those affected include three athletes who do not come from Japan. The organizing committee does not mention names or countries of origin.
04:23 am
RKI reports 2089 new infections – the incidence rises to 13.2
The Robert Koch Institute reported 2089 new infections in the morning. That is 633 more than on Friday a week ago, when 1456 new infections were reported. The seven-day incidence continues to rise to 13.2 from 12.2 the previous day. The value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been infected with the corona virus in the past seven days. 34 other people died related to the virus. This increases the number of reported deaths to 91,492 within 24 hours. In total, more than 3.75 million corona tests have so far been positive in Germany.
04:23 am
UK introduces daily corona testing in the food sector
U.K. plans to introduce daily corona tests for employees in the food sector to keep the industry going. With a negative test result, employees could continue working, even if they had previously been asked by an app warning to quarantine, the government said. According to official Corona warnings for hundreds of thousands of employees in retail and wholesale, shelves in supermarkets in Great Britain remained empty. The problems associated with the app warning – called Pingdemic in England – fall at a time when Prime Minister Boris Johnson has only just largely freed the economy from corona restrictions.