Corona numbers: 23,648 new corona infections in Germany - record in Sweden

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In Germany, the health authorities

reported

new corona infections to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

within 24 hours.

As a result, a high was reached on Friday, as can be seen from the information from the RKI from the morning.

On Friday a week ago, the previous peak was reached with 23,542 recorded cases.

Compared to Thursday, the number of newly reported cases rose by a good 1,000 on Friday.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted a total of

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of November 20, 00:00).

The number of deaths related to the virus rose

to

.

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According to the RKI situation report from Thursday evening, the so-called seven-day R was

(previous day: 0.95).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 99 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.

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Corona in Europe

In

, the number of corona infections rose within one day by 22,882 to 2.11 million.

According to the Ministry of Health, the number of deaths climbed by 1138 on Friday to 48,265.

On Thursday it reported 21,140 new infections and 429 deaths, although unlike on Friday the number of people who died in retirement homes over several days was not included.

Sweden

reported a record on Friday with 7240 new infections within one day.

The highest number of new infections to date was recorded at the beginning of the month at 5990.

According to data from the health department, the number of deaths rose by 66 to a total of 6406. Sweden has followed a looser strategy than other countries in the pandemic.

Compared to its Nordic neighbors, the death rate in relation to the number of inhabitants in Sweden is much higher, but compared to larger European countries it is lower.

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In

, the latest Corona data signal progress in the fight against the pandemic, but the number of newly infected remains high.

The so-called R value for the speed of virus transmission in the population fell to around 1.2, as government experts announced in Rome on Friday.

In some regions, such as Lazio with the capital Rome, even significantly lower values ​​were calculated.

In the previous week, the number in Italy had averaged 1.4 and before that 1.7.

This number shows how many people a person infected with the virus infects on average.

If it falls below 1, there are fewer and fewer new infections, so the epidemic is running out. 

“We shouldn't be singing victory songs yet.

Because the R number is above 1. And that means that the number of cases continues to increase, albeit more slowly, ”said the head of the national health institute ISS, Silvio Brusaferro.

The authorities in the country with 60 million inhabitants registered more than 37,000 new infections within 24 hours on Friday.

This value was already higher about a week ago, but it is not falling permanently.

In addition, almost 700 people again died in connection with Covid-19 disease.

Overall, the number of victims of the pandemic in the Mediterranean country has only been 48,569 since February.

More than 2,200 corona deaths within 24 hours in the USA

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In the

, more than 2,200 people died within 24 hours as a result of a corona infection.

As a census published on Thursday evening (local time) showed, there were also more than 200,100 new infections with the corona virus nationwide.

Due to the rapidly increasing number of new infections, several states have now tightened their corona measures again.

The CDC health agency urgently advised US citizens against traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday next week due to the corona pandemic on Thursday.

It was not an order, but a "strong recommendation," said CDC representative Henry Walke.

Thanksgiving is the most important family celebration in America.

In several states, new tightening of the corona measures will come into force this week.

Schools in New York have been closed again since Thursday.

Most of California will return to a night curfew from Saturday.

In

, more than six million corona infections were confirmed by Friday.

After the USA and India, the country is the third country in which this mark has been passed.

The Ministry of Health registered 38,397 new infections.

The number of deaths rose within 24 hours by 552 to 168,613.