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The German health authorities
reported
12,257
new corona infections to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
within one day.
In addition,
349
new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, as the RKI announced on Sunday morning.
Last Sunday, the RKI recorded 13,882 new infections and 445 new deaths within 24 hours.
The high of
1,244
new deaths was reached on January 14th.
Among the new infections registered within 24 hours
, the highest value was reported on December 18,
at
33,777
- but this included 3500
late reports
.
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According to the RKI, the
number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (
seven-day incidence
) was
111.1
on Sunday morning
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The number fluctuated after that and has been falling again for a few days.
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The RKI has counted
2,134,936
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany
since the beginning of the pandemic
(as of January 24th, 00:00).
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher since many infections are not recognized.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
51,870
.
The RKI stated the number of people recovered at around 1,807,500.
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According to the RKI situation report on Saturday evening, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
1.01
(previous day: 0.97).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 101 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
USA and Spain - German government classifies 25 countries as "high-risk areas"
Because of the particularly high number of corona infections, the federal government will for the first time classify
25
countries as high-risk areas
as of Sunday
, for which even stricter entry rules will apply than for the previous and still existing "risk areas".
As the Robert Koch Institute announced on its website on Friday, this includes the Czech Republic, the holiday countries Portugal, Spain and Egypt, Israel, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and the USA.
Entry from these "high incidence areas" is only possible with a negative corona test.
The test may have been carried out at least 48 hours before entry.
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In addition, as with the countries classified as "risk areas", those entering the country must be in a ten-day quarantine.
The Greek region of Attica around the capital Athens, on the other hand, is one of the very few European regions no longer considered a risk area - if you travel from there to Germany, no quarantine is necessary.
Israel is now vaccinating teenagers
Israel
has started corona vaccination of young people.
The country's largest health care organization, Clalit, had its first teenagers injected on Saturday morning, according to the organization's website.
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that it would approve the vaccination of high school students between the ages of 16 and 18 with the consent of their parents.
The three other health organizations wanted to start vaccinating young people at a later date.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign a month ago, more than 2.5 million of the total of around nine million residents have received the first vaccination dose, according to the Ministry of Health.
900,000 people have already received the second injection.
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The front runner in vaccinations in Germany is
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
with a vaccination rate of
2.76 percent of
the population, followed by
Schleswig-Holstein
with
2.59 percent
.
Baden-Württemberg comes in last with a rate of 1.22 percent.
For the first time in two weeks,
the number of Covid patients in intensive care units is
falling in
France
.
The Ministry of Health announced that the decrease was 16 to 2896.
The number of new infections rose to 23,924 after 23,292 on Friday and 21,406 a week ago.
Corona worldwide
According to official information, 20,921 people were newly infected with Corona
in
Russia
.
The number of cases of infection rose to 3.698 million.
The authorities reported 559 additional deaths, bringing the total number of victims to 68,971.
Worldwide, Russia ranks fourth behind the USA, India and Brazil.
According
to a Reuters survey, the
number of corona deaths in the
United States
has risen by at least 3788 to 413,775.
The number of infections grew by more than 190,000 to 24.7 million people.
China
reports 107 new infections on the anniversary of the first lockdown in Wuhan - the city where the virus first spread worldwide. The day before, there were 103. According to official information, a total of 88,911 people have been infected with the virus in the most populous country in the world.
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