Corona incidence in Berlin is stagnating – only Reinickendorf is reporting new cases

From BZ editors

The corona incidence was 337.9 on Monday, according to the Senate situation report. The previous day the reading was 338.3.

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.

93 new corona infections were registered in Berlin on Monday. The total number is 1,013,959. There were no other deaths. 4,512 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 one district submitted current figures on Monday: Reinickendorf (+93).

► With the seven-day incidence, two districts are above the 500 mark. Marzahn-Hellersdorf has the highest incidence with 725.0, followed by Lichtenberg (567.1).

Neukölln has the lowest incidence with 181.5.

The status of vaccinations

79.4 percent (previous day: 79.4) of Berliners have been vaccinated at least once. 75.4 percent (previous day: 75.4) have the basic immunization or are fully vaccinated. 60.7 percent (previous day: 60.7) have received a booster vaccination or have been boosted.

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 337.9 – the traffic light is RED.

The seven-day hospitalization incidence is 10.0 – 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 4.5 percent – the traffic light is GREEN.

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

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