The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day incidence on Friday morning as 1073.0. On Thursday the value was 1017.4, on Friday last week it was 706.3. The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
According to data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours was 190,148 on Friday – after 203,136 the day before and 140,160 on Friday last week.
As the RKI further announced, citing data from the health authorities, 170 new deaths related to the corona virus were counted on Friday.
According to the latest information from the institute, the health authorities have recorded a total of 9,429,079 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 117,484. The RKI puts the number of people in Germany who have recovered from an illness caused by the coronavirus at around 7,494,200.
Hospitalization incidence is increasing again
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 in the hospital within seven days because of a corona infection. According to the latest RKI report on Thursday, the hospitalization incidence nationwide was 4.64. After a few weeks of stagnation, the value has recently picked up again significantly.
In the most recent weekly report on Thursday, the RKI pointed out that 32 percent of the reported corona tests in Germany last week were positive. In the previous week it was still 24 percent. Due to the “massive” increase in “infection pressure”, there have long been fears that the registered infection numbers do not reflect the actual infection process.
Corona cases in Switzerland
How many new corona infections are there in Switzerland? The daily case numbers of the BAG are continuously available in the statistics ticker on BLICK.
How many new corona infections are there in Switzerland? The daily case numbers of the BAG are continuously available in the statistics ticker on BLICK.
The RKI explained: “Even if not every individual case is recorded in the reporting system”, “a reliable assessment of the overall development” is possible through additional indicators. For the assessment of the current situation of the pandemic, “the focus is not on recording all infections caused by SARS-CoV-2, but on the development of the number and severity of the diseases”.