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The number of recorded deaths related to the coronavirus has skyrocketed and hit a new high.
Within one day, the German health authorities sent the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) 952 new deaths, according to the RKI figures from Wednesday morning.
In addition,
27,728
new infections have been recorded.
However, the data from Tuesday did not contain any numbers from Saxony, which is why the new numbers could also contain late reports, as it was said.
Last Wednesday, 20,815 new infections and 590 deaths were reported.
The previous highs of 29,875 reported cases and 598 deaths were reached on Friday.
Corona numbers in Germany
The trend in the number of daily deaths had recently gone up, which was also expected after the steep increase in new infections.
On Tuesday, the number of newly reported deaths was 500 and thus, even without the missing Saxon data, the third highest value since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of people who died with or involving a documented Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 23,427 as of Wednesday.
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The
7-day incidence
, which is
decisive for assessing the situation
- the new infections reported per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days - also reached a new high of 179.8.
On Tuesday this value was 173.7.
The missing data from Saxony only influenced the value slightly, according to the RKI.
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The RKI has counted
1,379,238
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany
since the beginning of the pandemic
(as of December 16, 00:00).
It is estimated that around 1,025,000 people have now recovered.
The nationwide
seven-day R-value
was 1.06 according to the RKI management report on Monday (previous day: 1.12).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 106 more people.
On Tuesday evening, the RKI gave the value as 0.98, but it can only be used to a limited extent due to pending data determinations.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection eight to 16 days ago.
Only when it is below 1 for a longer period does it decrease.
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Eight districts in Germany have a seven-day incidence of over 500.
They therefore appear pink on the RKI map.
Seven of the districts are in Saxony: Bautzen (631.2), Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (600.2), Zwickau (596.8), Erzgebirgskreis (549.9), Oberspreewald-Lausitz (539.4), Görlitz (532 , 6), Meissen (509.3).
This means that seven of the 13 administrative districts in Saxony are pink.
The Bavarian district of Regen is the second most severely affected district in Germany with a seven-day incidence of 617.5.
In the entire federal territory, only twelve districts currently have an incidence of less than 50. The
city of Rostock
is currently the least affected by Corona
(16.7).
In Uelzen (32.5) and North Frisia (33.1), the infection rate is within a comparatively controllable framework.
The significant increase in deaths in
Berlin
since the beginning of December is largely due to deceased
residents of care facilities
.
492 people who lived in such homes have died since spring after corona infections.
The health administration announced this on Wednesday upon request (as of December 15).
At the beginning of December there were still 224.
A total of 899 corona deaths have been recorded in Berlin so far (as of December 1: 594).
More than every second documented case concerns residents of care facilities.
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The number of infections among nursing home residents has also skyrocketed since the beginning of the month: from 2050 then to 3425 now. In addition, around 600 nursing staff tested positive during the period.
The use of rapid tests in homes was recently expanded significantly, but there is no overview of their use.
Positive results must be confirmed with a laboratory test.
According to the health administration, 115 residents and 50 employees have tested positive so far in the largest known outbreak in a health and care center in Mitte.
The authorities suspect that the reason for the rapid spread of the virus is the behavior of mentally ill residents, who often lack the understanding of the measures.
Corona numbers in Europe
Italy
could have more deaths this year than it has seen since World War II.
"This year, unfortunately, we will easily exceed the limit of 700,000 deaths," said the President of the Italian statistics agency Istat, Gian Carlo Blangiardo, on Tuesday on the television station Rai 3. This is a worrying figure, because Italy had these figures last year Achieved in 1944 - at the time of World War II.
Italy has been hit hard by the corona pandemic.
The health authorities have so far recorded around 1.86 million corona infections and at least 65,000 people who had died with an infection.
Sweden
recorded the highest number of deaths in a month since the Spanish flu in November.
A total of 8088 people died across the country last month, as the state statistics agency (SCB) announced on Monday.
The number is about ten percent above the average death rate from 2015 to 2019.
"This is the highest number of deaths recorded in November since 1918, the year the Spanish flu broke out," said SCB statistician Tomas Johansson.
However, at 16,600 more than twice as many deaths were registered.
In addition, Sweden had significantly fewer inhabitants around a hundred years ago.
The second wave of the corona pandemic led to a surge in new infections in Sweden.
According to the health authorities, 2,406 people with a corona infection were treated in the hospital on Monday - a high since April.
However, only around ten percent of the patients were in the intensive care unit, in April it was 22 percent.
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Coronavirus numbers worldwide
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In the
USA
, the number of confirmed corona infections increased by at least 209,021 to 16.5 million within 24 hours.
The number of deaths related to the virus increased by 1,596 to 301,085, according to a Reuters survey based on official data.
The USA is the country with the highest number of registered infections and deaths worldwide and is currently being hit by a devastating new corona wave.
More than 200,000 new cases are added every day, and on a few days more than 3000 deaths have already been recorded.
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