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The number of corona patients in German intensive care units has exceeded the threshold of 4,000 for the first time.

On Friday, the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) reported

4011

people in intensive

care

.

That was 31 more than the day before, as the Divi daily report shows.

60 percent of the patients are ventilated invasively (as of December 4th, 12.15 p.m.).

With

432

new deaths within one day, the third highest level since the beginning of the pandemic was reported.

The previous high of

487

deaths was reached on Wednesday.

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The trend in the number of daily deaths had recently gone up, which was also expected after the steep increase in new infections.

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According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the number of new infections within 24 hours is

23,449

.

The value is just above the 

22,806

 cases of the previous week, as can be seen from the RKI figures from Friday morning.

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

18,034

on Friday

.

The RKI has counted

1,130,238

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2

in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic

(as of December 4th, 00:00).

It is estimated that around

820,600

people have now recovered.

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According to the RKI management report on Thursday, the so-called seven-day R value was

0.94

(previous day: 0.89).

This means that 100 infected people infect 94 other people.

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

If the value is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection rate subsides.

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The number of new infections in

France

remained below the threshold of 10,000 cases on Tuesday at 8,083 for the third day in a row.

This was last the case in mid-September.

The seven-day average for new deaths was 467 for the first time in more than three weeks below the value of 500. A total of 2.2 million infections and 53,506 deaths are recorded.

Italy

severely restricts freedom of movement in the anti-corona fight over Christmas into the New Year.

The decision was taken by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's cabinet on Thursday night.

With the tightened travel bans until January 6, Rome wants to prevent the number of infections from rising again.

The 60 million Italians are to be discouraged from setting off on Christmas holidays in large numbers or visiting distant relatives.

Specifically, the cabinet decided to ban travel between the regions of Italy from December 21st.

On Thursday, authorities reported the highest daily number of coronavirus deaths to date.

According to the authorities, a total of 993 people died with the virus in the previous 24 hours.

The previous high in Italy was on March 27th.

In

Russia

, the authorities reported

27,403

new infections with the

corona virus

on Friday

.

Almost 7,000 of these are in the capital Moscow.

The number of infections since the outbreak of the epidemic has

risen

to

2,402,949.

569 of those infected died in the past 24 hours. The infection was fatal for over 42,000 people.

Corona worldwide

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In the

USA

, the number of new corona infections recorded within 24 hours has reached a new high.

There were 217,664 new confirmed cases on Thursday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore on Friday morning (CET).

The highest value so far was registered on Friday last week with around 205,000 new cases.

The number of deaths reported within one day also reached a new high.

2879 deaths with confirmed coronavirus infection were recorded on Thursday.

The highest value so far had only been registered the day before with 2804 deaths.

The

Turkey

reported on Wednesday 193 new deaths the tenth day in a row a record.

According to the Ministry of Health, the number of new infections increases by

31,923

.

With 629 new infections,

South Korea

reports the highest number in nine months.

The health authorities say that 295 new infections were detected in the capital Seoul within 24 hours.

India has

fewer than 40,000 new infections for the fifth day in a row. The number of confirmed infections with the coronavirus rose within 24 hours by 36,595 to 9.57 million, according to the Ministry of Health. This is the second most cases worldwide after the USA, where almost 14 million infections are registered. Unlike in the USA, however, the number of new infections in India has been falling since the highs in August and September. The number of deaths increased by 540 to 139,188.