DThe number of new corona infections and the incidence have reached new highs. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections in the past 24 hours on Thursday morning as 236,120. This exceeded the previous high of 208,498 from the previous day. Meanwhile, the seven-day incidence on Thursday was 1283.2, up from the previous record of 1227.5 the previous day.
As the RKI also announced, 164 other deaths related to the corona virus were recorded on Thursday.
On Thursday a week ago, the health authorities nationwide reported 203,136 new infections. The incidence was 1017.4 a week ago. The indicator quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 10,422,764 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 118,334. The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 7,869,200.
In November, the federal and state governments had defined the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening or relaxing the corona measures. This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are hospitalized within seven days because of a corona infection. According to the latest RKI report, the hospitalization incidence nationwide on Wednesday was 4.77.
Germany, with the second oldest population in Europe, is particularly at risk
The German Medical Association and the German Hospital Society (DKG) are calling for step-by-step plans for opening steps in corona policy. “If the infection process develops as epidemiologists predict, the number of cases will gradually decrease from the end of February,” says the President of the German Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, the editorial network Germany (RND). “The federal and state governments should therefore be prepared and, if possible, prepare phased plans for openings, which can then hopefully be implemented soon.”
The restrictions are still unavoidable. “Germany has the second oldest population in Europe and a low vaccination rate among older people compared to Denmark and England.” The CEO of the German Hospital Society (DKG), Gerald Gass, also tells the RND that it is not the case now in view of the increasing number of patients in the hospitals right time to relax. “But of course we need clear prospects for openings in the near future, once we get past the omicron wave.”
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