Robert Koch Institute
The number of new corona infections has almost doubled compared to the previous week
According to the RKI, 63,393 nine corona infections were reported by the health authorities.
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The curve for the seven-day incidence continues to rise in Germany. The RKI reported more than 60,000 new corona infections on Monday – almost twice as many as a week ago.
The incidence of new corona infections in Germany has again reached a high. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day incidence on Monday morning as 840.3. On Sunday the value was 806.8, on Monday last week it was 528.2. According to data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours was 63,393 on Monday – after 85,440 the day before and 34,145 on Monday last week.
As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 28 new deaths related to the corona virus were counted on Monday.
According to the latest information from the institute, the health authorities have recorded a total of 8,744,840 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 116,746. The RKI puts the number of people in Germany who have recovered from an illness caused by the coronavirus at around 7,273,100.
The federal and state governments are advising on further corona steps
In Germany, the highly contagious omicron variant of the corona virus now dominates. The heads of the federal and state governments therefore want to discuss new measures on Monday. A resolution proposal from Sunday refers to new infections of over 100,000 cases a day and the latest assessment by the Federal Government’s Expert Council. According to this, the seven-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants for new infections in the region could soon reach values “several thousand”.
In November, the federal and state governments had defined 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 hospitalized within seven days because of a corona infection. According to the latest RKI report on Friday, the hospitalization incidence nationwide was 3.77.