Coronavirus: RKI registers 29,364 new corona infections – incidence at 452.4

Status: 04:16 a.m. | Reading time: 5 minutes

D.he seven-day incidence has risen again and has peaked. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) stated the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Monday morning as 452.4. For comparison: the previous day the value was 446.7, a week ago it was 386.5 (previous month: 64.3).

The health authorities in Germany reported 29,364 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 03:34 a.m. Exactly one week ago there were 30,643 infections.

According to the new information, 73 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 62 deaths. The RKI has counted 5,791,060 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 are not recognized.

The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was given by the RKI on Friday as 5.97 (Thursday: 5.79). The value is not reported on the weekend. It plays an essential role in assessing what is happening in the infection. If limit values ​​3, 6 and 9 are exceeded in the federal states, stricter measures to combat the pandemic can be imposed there.

also read

Brand story MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

advertisement

The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered on Monday at 4,852,800. The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 100,956.

All developments in the live ticker:

4:00 a.m. – SPD health expert Dittmar sees Prime Minister’s duty

The health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Sabine Dittmar, sees the responsibility in fighting pandemics also with the federal states. “The federal states have all legal options in hand to impose restrictions in public and private areas. They have to use them resolutely, ”said the health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, Dittmar, who is being traded as a possible new federal health minister, to the newspaper“ Augsburger Allgemeine ”. The decisive means are significant reductions in contact. Therefore, each individual should also think about which contacts can be dispensed with in this critical phase. Everyone can do their part through their personal behavior “and through their own comprehensive vaccination protection to ensure that Corona has as little target as possible”.

02:41 am – Botswana is the second African country affected

Botswana also reported 19 infections with the new virus variant on Sunday. Along with South Africa, the country is the only African state that has officially recorded Omicron cases.

02:15 a.m. – First suspected case in Switzerland

The new Omikron variant of the coronavirus may have now also appeared in Switzerland. According to the Federal Office of Public Health, it was a person who returned from South Africa a week ago, the SDA agency reported on Sunday evening. More details are expected from a genetic test in the next few days.

also read

The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the variant, which was first discovered in southern Africa, as “worrying”. The EU health authority ECDC speaks of serious concerns that Omikron could significantly reduce the effectiveness of corona vaccines and increase the risk of reinfection. The exact effects of the mutant have not yet been determined.

2:00 a.m. – Ziemiak criticizes Scholz

CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak accuses the likely future Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) of being too lax with the corona situation. “Olaf Scholz must finally take the situation as seriously as Angela Merkel has done so far. I don’t see that at the moment, ”Ziemiak told the newspaper“ Rheinische Post ”. “The traffic light is not doing enough with Corona. The measures are not enough and it was wrong to let the epidemic situation come to an end. ”For those who have not been vaccinated, it should mean in future: no cinema, no restaurant, no theater. “We showed too much consideration for the unvaccinated.”

12:50 am – CSU General Secretary Blume calls for “full braking”

CSU General Secretary Markus Blume calls on the traffic light parties to take extensive measures in the fight against the fourth corona wave. “We need an emergency stop not only in the south or east, but in all of Germany,” said Blume in the political talk of the Bild newspaper. Another prime ministerial conference is needed “to anchor a federal emergency brake”. According to him, a 70 percent reduction in contact is necessary to break the wave. In Bavaria, regional lockdowns have been created as an option.

also read

12:36 am – Two omicron cases also discovered in Canada

The first corona cases with the new Omikron variant were detected in Canada on Sunday. The variant was discovered in two travelers who recently returned from Nigeria, as Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced. Those affected were isolated while the health authorities were looking for possible contacts, said officials from the province of Ontario, where the two infected people are.

“As the monitoring and testing continues, it is expected that more cases of this variant will be discovered in Canada,” Minister Duclos said. Canada had already imposed a travel ban from seven African countries on Friday out of concern about the spread of Omikron, but Nigeria was not one of them.

11:30 p.m. – Around 261.09 million infections and over 5.45 million deaths worldwide

So far, around 261.09 million people around the world have been shown to have contracted the coronavirus. This is the result of a Reuters survey based on official data. Over 5.45 million people died with or from the virus, which was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The United States has the highest number of infections and deaths. In terms of infections, India and Brazil follow.