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On the first day of the new year, the German health authorities reported

12,690

new corona infections.

In addition,

336

new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Saturday morning.

However, it is difficult to interpret the data at the moment because fewer people are likely to be tested during the Christmas holidays and around the turn of the year and not all offices may transmit their data.

According to the RKI, this can result in late registrations.

A week

ago

, on Christmas Day,

14,455 new

corona infections and

240

deaths were registered.

The high of

1129

new deaths was reached on Wednesday (December 30th).

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The number of new infections reported to the health authorities within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was

141.2

on Saturday morning

.

Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at

197.6

.

The differences between the federal states, however, are enormous: the highest incidences were on Friday, New Year's Day, Saxony with

341.2

and Thuringia with

244.7

.

Schleswig-Holstein had the lowest value with

74.2

.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted

1,755,351

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

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

33,960

.

The RKI

stated the

number of

people recovered

to be

around

1,368,100

.

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

0.80

(Tuesday:

0.68

),

the most recent due to New Year's Day

.

This R value means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 80 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.

In its report, however, the RKI emphasizes that at the turn of the year, corona cases are only displayed, recorded and transmitted with a delay, "so that the R-value may also be underestimated".

Coronavirus numbers worldwide

The new, more contagious virus variant

B.1.1.7

continues to spread

in

Denmark

.

According to information from Saturday, the variant has now

been detected

in

86

people, said the "Statens Serum Institute", a research facility of the Danish Ministry of Health.

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This means that the new virus type makes up

0.8 percent of

all around 10,300 samples whose genome has been examined by the institute in the past six weeks.

However, the proportion of B.1.1.7 cases increased week by week, to

2.3 percent of

all samples examined in calendar

week

52.

The “Statens Serum Institute” then knows that the researchers examined only 11 percent of all new infections discovered in Denmark and thus already occupy a leading position in a country comparison.

The actual number of people infected with the new virus type is therefore likely to be higher.

In Germany, the RKI received isolated cases of this variant.

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In the

United States

, the CDC recorded

3764

more coronavirus-related deaths

on Thursday

- a slight increase compared to the previous day (3406).

The number of detected infections rose by

230,337

to more than 19.6 million cases.

The CDC does not provide any data for Friday due to the New Year's Day.

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In

Russia

, the authorities reported

26,301

new infections within 24 hours

on Saturday

.

In the capital Moscow alone, almost 5,500 other people tested positive for the corona virus.

That corresponds roughly to the level of the previous day.

This means that more than

3.2

million people have been proven to be infected.

The number of deaths related to the virus rose

447

to 58,002.

After the USA, India and Brazil, Russia has the highest number of cases of infection worldwide.