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The third wave continues to spread in Europe.

Some neighboring countries are already more affected than Germany, where the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

reported

9,549

new infections

on Tuesday

.

Baden-Württemberg is not included in this, however.

In addition,

180 new deaths were

recorded

within 24 hours

.

The seven-day incidence is

135.2

.

In neighboring

France

, according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, this is

370.6

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week.

On Monday, the Grande Nation counted

9,094

new infections and

360

new deaths.

A total of

94,956

people died of or with Covid-19.

Even

Austria

is affected by the spread of mutations: The seven-day incidence as estimated on Tuesday at

257.7

.

In Vienna, the infection rate is the

strongest

with a value of

342.7

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week.

The number of patients in Austrian intensive care units was

537

on Monday

, a month ago it was about half as many.

The peak was reached at the end of November with 709 intensive care patients.

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In the

Czech Republic

, where around 10 million people live,

6,865

new infections were recorded

on Monday

- a decrease of around 2,000 infections compared to the previous day of the week.

That comes from official information from Tuesday.

The Czech Republic has

already passed

the peak of the third wave, at which around

160,000

people were acutely and verifiably infected, in mid-March.

Although the country was downgraded from the higher virus variant area category on Sunday, it is still considered a high incidence area.

Authorities in

Poland

reported

20,870

new infections and

461

deaths

on Tuesday

.

The total number of deaths rose to

52,392

.

Since March 21, Poland has been a high-incidence area with a seven-day incidence of well over 200.

Unlike France, Poland and the Czech Republic, Austria is not one of the high incidence areas according to the RKI.

The neighboring countries Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and, since March 28, Denmark again, are also

“simple”

risk

areas.

Coronavirus in Germany

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The worst affected in Germany is

Thuringia,

with a 7-day incidence of

237.5

(as of Tuesday).

A week ago the value was 166.6.

Within Thuringia - but also throughout Germany - the

district of

Greiz

is the

district

most severely affected by the pandemic

with an incidence of

609.9

.

Only

14

urban and rural districts nationwide are currently still below the limit of

50

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.

The incidence is lowest in North Frisia (24.7), Bernkastel-Wittlich (RLP, 24.9) and Plön (Schleswig-Holstein, 26.4).

295 circles exceed an incidence of 100.

The RKI has counted 2,791,822 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic.

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.

The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 2,507,900.

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 76,093.

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According to the RKI management report from Monday evening, the

nationwide

seven-day R-value

was

1.10

(previous day: 1.17).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 110 more people.

The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.

If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides;

if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.

Coronavirus worldwide

In

India

, the number of new infections is falling again after three days with record levels of over 60,000 cases.

The Ministry of Health reported

56,211

proven

cases of

infection within 24 hours

on Tuesday

.

In Maharashtra alone, the country's richest state, there are more than 31,000.

The number of deaths related to the coronavirus increases by

271

to

162,114

.

For a long time India was the country with the second highest values ​​after the USA.

Brazil now has more infections and deaths than India.

With more than

549,000

deaths and

30.3 million

infections, the

United States is the

country most severely affected by the pandemic in absolute terms.

In the meantime, more than

93 million

people have been vaccinated at least once.

More than 48 percent of those over 65 already have full vaccination protection.

The USA has a total of almost 330 million inhabitants.