The nationwide seven-day incidence has fallen again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week on Tuesday morning as 1306.8.
For comparison: the day before the value was 1346.8. A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1437.5 (previous month: 772.7). The health authorities in Germany reported 125,902 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. A week ago there were 159,217 infections.
Experts assume a high number of cases that are not recorded in the RKI data. Test capacities and health authorities are therefore at the limit in many places, and contacts are only tracked to a limited extent. In addition, there is likely to be a larger number of people who no longer have their infection confirmed by a PCR test – the infection is therefore not included in the official statistics.
According to the new information, 306 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 243 deaths. The RKI has counted 13,762,895 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.
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The number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 6.06 (Sunday: 6.27) according to the RKI on Monday. Among them are many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.
The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Tuesday as 10,031,200. The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 121,603.