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Within one day, the health authorities in Germany sent the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) 20,200 new corona infections.

That comes from numbers from Sunday morning.

The peak was reached on Friday with

29,875

reported cases.

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

Last Sunday the number was 17,767.

The health authorities also reported

321

new deaths

within one day

.

The previous high of 598 deaths was also reached on Friday.

The number of daily deaths had tended to go up recently, which was expected after the steep increase in new infections.

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 21,787.

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In total, the RKI has

counted 1,320,716

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany

since the beginning of the pandemic

(as of December 13, 00:00 a.m.).

It is estimated that around 967,900 people have now recovered.

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According to the RKI management report on Friday, the nationwide seven-day R value was

1.11

(previous day: 1.03).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 111 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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Saxony

is still by far the state with the most new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

On Sunday morning, the current overview of the RKI for the Free State showed an incidence value of 348.7, the day before it was 342.1 (as of December 13, 12 midnight).

Three regions in the Free State even exceed an incidence of 500: the

districts of Bautzen

(574.1),

Görlitz

(510.4) and the

Erzgebirgskreis

(505.8).

The most severely affected in Germany is the

Regen district

in Bavaria, which reported 604.6 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days on Sunday.

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Corona in Europe

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In the

UK

, 21,502 new coronavirus cases were reported on Saturday.

In addition, 519 people die after being infected with the pathogen, according to official data.

The authorities in

Italy

registered 19,903 new infections with the coronavirus on Saturday after 18,727 on Friday.

649 other people died in connection with Covid-19 within 24 hours.

On Friday there were 761.

According to a count by the AFP news agency based on information from the authorities, more people died of or with Covid-19 in Italy than in Great Britain, which has long had the highest number of victims in Europe.

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Corona worldwide

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The number of new infections in the

United States

rose by 244,011 to around 15.7 million on Saturday, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

The number of deaths increases by 3,031 to 294,535.

South Korea

reported a new high for infections on Sunday for the second day in a row.

The disease center announced that 1030 new infections were registered.

On Saturday, South Korea mobilized the police and the army to track chains of infection.

In total, South Korea has 42,766 corona infections and 580 related deaths.

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