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The German health authorities
reported
21,237 new
corona infections to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
within one day.
In addition,
1019
new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, the RKI announced on Wednesday morning.
The high of 1,129 new deaths was reached on December 30th.
Among the new infections registered within 24 hours
, the highest value was reported on December 18,
at
33,777
- but this included 3500
late reports
.
An interpretation of the data remains difficult because around Christmas and the turn of the year corona cases were discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay, according to the RKI.
According to the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM), the number of laboratory tests had fallen again over the turn of the year compared to Christmas week.
Compared to the week before Christmas, the number has roughly halved in the past week.
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"We expect that more people will be tested again at the beginning of the year with the opening of medical practices and test centers," said the first chairman of the association, Michael Müller, on Tuesday.
The RKI assumes that the reporting data on the occurrence of the infection cannot be used again until the end of next week / beginning of the week after next, as it was said on request.
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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
127.3
on Wednesday morning
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The differences between the federal states, however, are enormous: The highest incidences on Tuesday had Saxony with 262.1 and Thuringia with 244.6.
Bremen had the lowest value with 73.7.
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The RKI has counted
1,808,647
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany
since the beginning of the pandemic
(as of January 6th, 00:00).
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
36,537
.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 1,451,000.
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According to the RKI report on Tuesday, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
0.81
(Monday: 0.85).
This means that 100 infected people infect 81 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.
The RKI emphasized that the R-value may be underestimated because of the delays.
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The
total number of vaccinated people in Germany
was reported to RKI on Wednesday at 367,331.
The RKI announced that 45,233 other people were vaccinated on Tuesday.
The vaccination quota is now 0.44 percent nationwide.
There are still
major differences
between the federal states
.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania remains the front runner with a vaccination rate of 1.12 percent, followed by Saxony-Anhalt with 0.78 percent and Hesse with 0.66 percent.
Thuringia comes in last with a rate of 0.17 percent.
Also relatively little has been vaccinated so far in Lower Saxony with 0.19 percent and in Brandenburg with a vaccination rate of 0.21 percent.
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Over the turn of the year, the
number of laboratory tests
for the corona virus in Germany fell further compared to Christmas week, according to a laboratory association.
721,463 tests were recorded in the week from December 28 to January 3, the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM) announced on Tuesday in Berlin, based on data from 169 laboratories.
The proportion of positive test results has meanwhile increased further to 16.4 percent.
Coronavirus numbers worldwide
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Over
85.88 million
people
worldwide have been
infected with the coronavirus.
1.859 million
died of or with the virus
.
The US is hardest hit
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In the
United States
, more than 180,000 people became infected with the coronavirus within 24 hours.
180,477 new infections were reported for Monday, slightly fewer than the day before.
That comes from data from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore on Tuesday.
The highest value so far was recorded on Saturday with 297,491 new infections within 24 hours.
The number of infected deaths recorded within 24 hours was 1903 on Monday after 1396 the previous day.
In total, more than 20.8 million people have been infected with the corona virus in the country with around 330 million inhabitants.
Since the pandemic began, more than 353,000 people have died from the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen.
According to its own information, the US disease authority CDC has administered more than 4.8 million vaccine doses to date.
A total of 17.02 million cans were delivered, it said on Tuesday.
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Great Britain
reported another record for the number of corona cases.
The authorities counted 60,916 more positive tests on Tuesday.
The previous high was only reported on Monday with 58,784 cases.
Another 830 people who tested positive died.
In view of the rapidly growing number of infections, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tightened the lockdown for England.
Vaccinations should also bring improvement in the fight against the virus.
So far, more than 1.3 million people in the UK have been vaccinated, Johnson said.
On Tuesday,
Spain
recorded 23,700 new infections within 24 hours, the highest daily value in two months.
That is around 10,000 cases more than a week ago, said the Ministry of Health.
Three regions, Catalonia, Madrid and Valencia, reported two thirds of all new infections together.
In Catalonia alone, 7,035 new infections were counted, including post-reported cases.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within two weeks in Spain, according to the information, climbed to a good 296. This is the highest value since November 27 (307).
Because of the rising numbers, several of the country's 17 so-called autonomous communities again announced on Tuesday that measures to contain the pandemic would be tightened.
Valencia, for example, extended the cordoning off of the region until January 31.
The almost five million inhabitants are only allowed to leave the region with good reason, for example to go to work or to the doctor.
Foreigners are also only allowed to enter in exceptional cases.
In addition, the start of the night-time blocking will be brought forward by two hours to 10 p.m. from Thursday.
Restaurants, bars and other eateries then have to close at 5 p.m.
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Extremadura on the border with Portugal (which has the highest so-called 14-day incidence in all of Spain at 638) and La Rioja also announced tightening of the restrictions.
The regional government of Catalonia announced on Monday that all communities of the "Comunidad Autónoma", including the metropolis of Barcelona, will be cordoned off for ten days from Thursday.
During this period, all shopping and fitness centers and all shops with a sales area of more than 400 square meters must remain closed.
Spain is hit hard by the virus.
Almost two million infections have so far been reported in the country with a population of 47 million.
More than 51,000 people died with Covid-19.