D.he Robert Koch Institute (RKI) registered 30,823 new corona infections within 24 hours. That’s 5236 fewer cases than on Tuesday a week ago when 36,059 positive tests were reported. The nationwide seven-day incidence fell again, to 375 from 389.2 the previous day. The value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been infected with the corona virus in the past seven days.
473 other people died in connection with the virus in the past 24 hours. This increases the number of reported deaths within one day to 1056,227. In total, more than 6.56 million corona tests have so far been positive in Germany.
Ten days before Christmas Eve, with a view to Corona, the signs are at least somewhat towards relaxation. Apparently, fewer people in Germany are now infected with the virus again. Until recently, overwhelmed authorities were associated with the fact that the reported values did not rise any further. Now the number of cases is actually falling. The number of people who come to the hospital is also no longer increasing. But experts warn that there is hardly any time to take a deep breath.
Improvement in badly affected federal states
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) recently reported a significant decrease in the number of cases. The 7-day incidence – i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week – fell from more than 450 at the end of November to well below 400 most recently. This is due to declines in most, if not all, federal states. The effect was particularly clear in some severely affected federal states.
Initially, there were indications that the decline in the officially reported numbers was more due to overloaded health offices and laboratories than to an actual relaxation of the situation. But now the offices are coming back a little better with the transmission of corona evidence, as Ute Teichert, chairman of the board of the Federal Association of Doctors of the Public Health Service (BVÖGD), says. In many offices, the staff is now only used to process incoming reports, but there is less contact follow-up. The support from Bundeswehr soldiers also helped.
The epidemiologist Gérard Krause from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig assumes that the situation will actually ease. His colleague Hajo Zeeb from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen speaks of a “positive development, even if there are uncertainties”. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote on Twitter on Monday: “The situation is slowly stabilizing, and the decline in the number of cases is real.”
Chief Medical Officer Teichert puts it more cautiously: It is still difficult to assess whether there is a real decline in new infections or whether the values are still strongly characterized by an under-reporting of the detected infections. “Probably both is the case.” The RKI did not want to comment on the dpa request and referred to its next weekly report, which will appear on Thursday evening.
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