Absolute record of Covid infections in Germany, where 262,752 cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours, a number never reached before. Yesterday the Robert Koch Institute reported 210,673 infections. The incidence over seven days has meanwhile risen to 1,388 infections per 100 thousand inhabitants, while last Thursday it stood at 1,174 cases. The deaths in the last 24 are 259 (last Thursday they were 267).
The hospitalization rate of patients with Covid over seven days stands at 6.74 per 100 thousand inhabitants. However, the data also includes people hospitalized for other reasons who later discovered they had Covid.
According to bioinformatician Lars Kaderali, a member of the government’s board of experts, Germany is experiencing a sixth wave of infections, due to the spread of the Omicron Ba.2 variant and the relaxation of anti-contagion measures. However, Kaderali supports the decision to abandon most of the measures on March 20. “The numbers of infections are increasing across the country, but the situation in hospitals is still not dramatic,” he said.
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