The RKI reports 87,681 new corona infections in Germany on Wednesday morning. The nationwide 7-day incidence is therefore 477.9. However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections – it is assumed that the number of unreported cases is high. You can find all the news here in the Corona ticker on FOCUS Online.
7.32 a.m .: According to Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), the traffic light coalition has finished negotiating the new infection protection law, which is intended to curb another corona wave in autumn. “I think the package is very good. We are prepared for the fall,” said Lauterbach to the newspapers of the Funke media group about the draft law negotiated with Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP). “At the same time, it protects us from being overburdened by too many Covid patients and from a critical situation caused by staff shortages.”
Lauterbach did not provide any specific information about the components of the package, but the presentation is expected shortly. This is about follow-up regulations of the Corona provisions in the Infection Protection Act, which expire on September 23. They are the legal basis for measures taken by the federal states and list possible instruments. In the spring, they were severely reduced under pressure from the FDP. General mask requirements when shopping or for events and access rules such as 2G and 3G were eliminated.
Lauterbach nevertheless warned of a “very difficult” autumn. Even those who were vaccinated four times with the previous vaccines would only have an infection protection of less than 40 percent compared to the omicron variant BA.5. The SPD politician told the newspapers that he feared that the critical infrastructure and hospitals could be overloaded. In order to assess the pandemic, comprehensive wastewater analyzes for the virus should also be carried out in the future: “We rely on a combination of incidence, admissions to the clinics and wastewater tests.”
Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 6:45 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Wednesday morning as 477.9. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 516.1 (previous week: 652.0; previous month: 665.0). However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 87,681 new corona infections (previous week: 121,780) and 210 deaths (previous week: 181) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week. The RKI has counted 31,044,554 detected 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.
Monday, August 2, 2022, 7:22 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Tuesday morning as 516.1. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 538.9 (previous week: 678.7; previous month: 696.5). However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 102,698 new corona infections (previous week: 145,472) and 171 deaths (previous week: 187) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
Monday, August 1, 2022, 7 a.m.: Since the number of corona cases is only partially transmitted on the weekends, they have no valid significance. More reliable figures are usually available from Tuesday to Friday. The RKI reports 861 new infections and seven more deaths for today. This brings the seven-day incidence down to 538.9.
Saturday, July 30, 9:49 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Saturday morning as 578.1. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 05:03 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 607.0 (previous week: 709.7; previous month: 668.6). However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 66,003 new corona infections (previous week: 92,009) and 117 deaths (previous week: 116) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week. The RKI has counted 30,853,312 detected 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.
Friday, July 29, 7:15 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Friday morning as 607.0. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 630.4 (previous week: 729.3; previous month: 646.3).
However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 84,798 new corona infections (previous week: 107,819) and 153 deaths (previous week: 113) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations and transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
7.50 p.m .: Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) expects major problems in the coming months of the pandemic. Despite a decline in the high incidences, there is already an increase in hospitalizations in Germany, and the intensive care units are also filling up, Lauterbach told the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” (Friday edition). “And more people are dying again.” Recent studies have clearly shown that the BA.5 variant of the coronavirus is more dangerous than the BA.2 variant.
Lauterbach defended himself against the accusation that his choice of words in the pandemic (“killer virus”) was unnecessarily drastic. “I use few words that are apocalyptic,” said the health minister. “But sometimes you have to call things by their name.” If there were a virus that linked the infection of the BA.5 variant with the severe course of a delta variant, “then that would be a killer variant”. He “didn’t say that such a variant would definitely come, but that we had to be prepared for such a variant.”
The Robert Koch Institute also expects an increase in corona patients who would have to be treated in the intensive care unit. Even if the nationwide seven-day incidence has recently fallen slightly, the infection pressure remains high in all age groups, the RKI announced on Thursday in its weekly report. Therefore, in the coming weeks, especially in the older age groups, “hospitalizations, an increase in intensive care treatments and deaths can be expected”.
6:07 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Thursday morning as 630.4. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 652.0 (previous week: 740.1; previous month: 635.8).
However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to the distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 104,126 new corona infections (previous week: 136,624) and 157 deaths (previous week: 177) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations and transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 30,702,511 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.
Thursday, July 28, 2:38 a.m .: The Federal Association of Municipal Facilities for the Elderly and Disabled (BKSB) has linked the continued existence of facility-related compulsory vaccination to the introduction of general compulsory vaccination. “Either you abolish the facility-related vaccination requirement or you order a general vaccination requirement,” says Chairman Alexander Schraml of the editorial network Germany (RND). He criticizes that mandatory immunization only applies to medical professions. “It was and is a scandal.”
Schraml also sees the fact that from October only people who have received a booster vaccination will be considered fully vaccinated as a tightening of the rule. He warns: “There is a risk that we will lose more employees or that trainees will not be able to be taken on in the fall.”
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