Pandemic
Seven-day incidence climbs above 700 mark
The employees of a Heidelberg PCR test laboratory prepares PCR test tubes. Photo: Uwe Anspach/dpa
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The RKI reports 154,729 new corona infections. Within one day, 165 people died from contracting the virus. The data situation is still not transparent.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has given the nationwide seven-day incidence as 702.4. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 661.4 (previous week: 687.7; previous month: 333.7).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations and transmission problems can lead to the distortion of individual daily values.
Only limited comparisons of the data are possible
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 154,729 new corona infections (previous week: 147,489) and 165 deaths (previous week: 102) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations and transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 29,180,489 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 go undetected.