The number of reported Covid 19 cases in Germany has been increasing again for around a month. The RKI registered around 2,400 sick people in the past week. Overall, the numbers remain at a low level.
The number of laboratory-confirmed corona cases in Germany is increasing again – albeit at a relatively low level. This development has been going on for about a month, reports the Influenza Working Group at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in their report current report on acute respiratory diseases.
The report covers the week ended August 13th. According to this, last week around 2,400 people who were proven to have Covid-19 were reported nationwide. That’s more than double the week ending July 9, when there were about 1,000.
According to the report, the increase in the number of reports is accompanied by an increasing proportion of variant EG.5. Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded this to the category “virus variants of interest”.
cold and common cold on the way
According to the RKI report, the activity of acute respiratory diseases in the general population was “at a low summer level”. In addition to Corona, it is mainly due to rhinoviruses, i.e. cold and cold pathogens. “Anyone who has symptoms of an acute respiratory infection should stay at home for three to five days and until the symptoms improve significantly,” advises the RKI.
The WHO had declared the international corona health emergency over three months ago.
Mild courses are not recorded
The data situation has deteriorated compared to the pandemic years. According to the WHO, it has less and less information about the corona situation in the world. It can be assumed that laboratory tests for Sars-CoV-2 will also be carried out in Germany, especially in the more seriously ill.
According to the RKI report, around a quarter of the reported corona cases have been hospitalized in the past few weeks. The reporting numbers represent only a small part of what actually happened. Many mild courses are not recorded.