Corona incidence in Berlin falls – but only six districts report numbers

The corona incidence in Berlin has fallen slightly. The value on Sunday was 1109.8, according to the Senate situation report. 24 hours earlier it was 1137.0.

The incidence indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been shown to have been newly infected with the corona virus in the past seven days.

1015 new corona infections (previous day: 7083) were registered in Berlin on Sunday. The total number is 735,167. There was no other death. 4243 people have died in Berlin since the beginning of the pandemic from or with the disease caused by the pathogen.

But not all cases count anymore

The federal government’s new test strategy has been in effect since February 12. The following applies: Anyone who wants to have a free PCR test done can only do so if an antigen rapid test previously carried out by a test center was positive.

Anyone who has a red warning in the Corona-Warn-App or has carried out a test with a positive result at home is no longer entitled to a free PCR test. But only PCR tests are included in the statistics.

The situation in the districts

Only six of the 12 counties reported new cases as of Sunday. Most new infections were reported from Spandau (+290), Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (+252), Lichtenberg (+199), Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (+177), Neukölln (+50) and Reinickendorf (+47) also reported new infections.

► With the seven-day incidence, Lichtenberg has exceeded the 2000 mark. The value is currently 2055.4. Treptow-Köpenick follows at a great distance (1629.7). Four other districts are currently just over the 1000 mark.

Steglitz-Zehlendorf has the lowest incidence with 809.5.

The status of vaccinations

77.4 percent (previous day: 77.4) of Berliners have been vaccinated at least once. 72.9 percent (previous day: 72.9) have the basic immunization or are fully vaccinated. 57.8 percent (previous day: 57.7) received a booster vaccination or were boosted. However, the numbers are not usually updated at the weekend.


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The Corona traffic light

In order to include a more meaningful indicator in the Corona traffic light, the relative change in the seven-day incidence was replaced by the hospitalization incidence. The seven-day incidence and the occupancy of the intensive care beds remain unchanged.

According to the management report, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants – equivalent to the seven-day incidence for all of Berlin – is 1109.8 (previous day: 1137.0) – the traffic light is RED.

The seven-day hospitalization incidence is 17.6 (previous day: 17.5) – the traffic light is RED.

This indicator shows how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were hospitalized after a corona infection within a week. The indicator is green when the value is below 4. From 4 the traffic light switches to yellow, at 8 to red.

The utilization of the intensive care beds by corona patients is 13.0 percent (previous day: 12.9 percent) – the traffic light is YELLOW.

The yellow limit here is 5 percent, and this traffic light also turns red at 20 percent.

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