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In the
UK
, the daily death toll from the corona pandemic has hit a new high.
1325
deaths were registered
within 24 hours
, as the health authorities announced on Friday.
It is the highest number of fatalities to date, after 1,224 corona deaths were reported at the height of the first corona wave on April 21.
The number of new infections every day was 60,053 on Friday.
With a total of 79,833 corona deaths, Great Britain is one of the countries most severely affected by the pandemic.
In particular, the government in London is currently fighting against the rapid spread of a mutated virus that was first discovered in the south-east of England in December.
Initial studies suggest that variant B.1.1.7 could be up to 70 percent more contagious than the previously known strains.
1188 deaths reported in Germany
In Germany, too, the number of reported deaths in connection with the coronavirus has reached a new high.
Within one day, the German health authorities transmitted
1,188
new deaths to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
, according to the RKI numbers from Friday morning.
In addition,
31,849
new infections were reported.
The previous 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
.
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When interpreting the number of cases, it should also be noted that in the weeks around Christmas and the turn of the year fewer people probably went to a doctor, fewer samples were taken and fewer laboratory tests were carried out, according to the RKI.
"This may have resulted in less pathogen evidence being reported to the responsible health authorities."
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The information for the 7-day incidence should also be assessed with caution - until reliable figures for seven individual days are available.
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.
According to Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on January 17th, clarity about the infection process after the holidays is to be gained.
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The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants (
seven-day incidence
)
reported to the health authorities within seven days was
136.5
on Friday morning
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The differences between the federal states are enormous: Saxony had the highest incidences with 297.6 and Thuringia with 256.9.
Bremen had the lowest value with 73.5.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted
1,866,887
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of January 8th, 00.00 a.m.).
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 38,795.
The RKI stated the number of people recovered to be around 1,494,100.
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According to the RKI report on Thursday, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
0.92
(previous day: 0.83).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 92 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.
One in five Israelis is already vaccinated
Israel
ranks first in the world in terms of the percentage of vaccinations given.
In just over two weeks, more than
1.5 million
people, about 20 percent of the Israeli population, received the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer.
This means that around every fifth citizen has already received the vaccine.
In comparison, around 0.5 percent of the population in Germany has already been vaccinated, according to information on the “Our World in Data” site.
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The majority of the Israeli population should be vaccinated by the end of the first quarter of 2021 - right around the general election on March 23.
The vaccination strategy is part of the aggressive public relations campaign that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put at the center of his election campaign ahead of the March vote.
Apparently, Netanyahu is betting that a successful vaccination campaign can convince voters to forget his corruption procedures and the economic damage caused by the corona crisis.
Around
467,000 cases of
infection have been recorded
in Israel since the beginning of the corona pandemic
.
More than
3,500
people died
as a
result of the infection in the country of nine million people.
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The
total number of vaccinated people in Germany
was reported to RKI on Friday at
476,959
.
On Thursday were
50
.938
more people vaccinated, the Robert Koch Institute informs.
The vaccination quota is now nationwide at 0.57 percent.
There are still major differences between the federal states.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania remains the front runner with a vaccination rate of 1.5 percent, ahead of Saxony-Anhalt with 0.88 percent and Schleswig-Holstein with 0.82 percent.
Thuringia comes in last with a rate of 0.37 percent.
Also relatively little has been vaccinated so far in Saxony with 0.38 percent and in Lower Saxony with a vaccination rate of 0.4 percent.
Coronavirus numbers worldwide
Over
87.34 million
people
worldwide
have been
infected with the coronavirus.
1.888 million died of or with the virus, according to a survey by the Reuters news agency based on official data on Thursday.
The US is hardest hit with over 21.22 million infections and 361,143 deaths.
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In the
United States
, more than
299,904
people became infected with the coronavirus within 24 hours.
That comes from the data of the US disease agency CDC from Thursday.
The number of deaths increased by 3844.
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Portugal
experienced its worst pandemic day yet on Friday.
With 10,176 new infections and 118 fatalities, the health authorities in Lisbon reported the highest number since the beginning of the Corona crisis.
The new infections in the country with 10.3 million inhabitants had already exceeded the previous record of December 31 (7627) on Wednesday with a daily value of 10,027.
Health Minister Marta Temido warned her compatriots on Wednesday: “The next few days will be very tough”.
The previous highest number of deaths with Covid-19 in one day was 98 on December 13th.