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The health authorities in Germany reported 17,767 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours.

The number of cases recorded is usually lower on Sundays, partly because fewer tests are carried out on the weekend.

A week ago the value was 14,611 new infections reported on one day.

Within one day, 255 people died related to the coronavirus.

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This means that the number of deaths in Germany has risen to 18,772 since the start of the pandemic (as of December 6th, 00:00).

According to the RKI, a total of 1,171,322 people have been proven to be infected with the virus.

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According to the RKI management report on Saturday, the so-called seven-day R-value was 1.10 (previous day: 1.04).

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 long time, the infection process subsides.

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Corona in Europe

In

Austria

there are the first results of the voluntary mass test, which is running at three locations in Vienna.

22,402 people were

tested

there on Friday

,

112 of them were

positive.

This means that not quite

0.5 percent of

the examinations had a positive test result, reports the ORF.

A PCR test was carried out by the health authorities on those who tested positive.

Their results are still pending.

The positive rate in the mass test in Tyrol was even lower:

76,197 people were

tested there,

202

received a positive antigen test result (

0.27 percent

), reports the newspaper "Kurier".

The mass test will run until December 13th and will also be extended to the Carinthia region.

For comparison: A

corona mass test has already taken place

in North Italian

South Tyrol

.

In the Alpine province, more than 350,000 citizens had a free smear test.

A good 3,600 participants (around 1 percent) received a positive corona result at the end.

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Italy

reported

662

new deaths

on Saturday, up

from 814 the previous day.

The number of new infections also fell: According to the Ministry of Health, it was

21,052

after 24,099.

The UK

registered

15,539

new infections and

397

more deaths

on Saturday

.

Both numbers are lower than the previous day.

Corona worldwide

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This is the situation in the

US

: The US

disease centers

CDC announced on Saturday

214,099

new infections and

2439

further deaths.

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In

Russia

, the authorities reported

28,782

new infections

on Saturday

- more than ever before within 24 hours.

Almost 8,000 cases were registered in the capital Moscow alone.

Overall, more than 2.43 million cases of infection have been detected in Russia since the outbreak of the pandemic.

The number of deaths related to the coronavirus rose by 508 to 42,684.

With 631 new infections,

South Korea has

once again reported a new high in nine months.

This increases the total number of confirmed infections with the corona virus to 37,546 with 545 deaths, according to the authorities.

After new restrictions such as an evening curfew came into force in the capital Seoul on Saturday, the government wants to decide on further measures in the fight against a third corona wave on Sunday.

The last talk was about closing the 30,000 karaoke bars in the country and limiting religious gatherings to a maximum of 20 participants.

South Korea had successfully contained the pandemic in the spring and summer with strict contact follow-up and was repeatedly cited as a prime example.