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The German health authorities
reported
16,946 new
corona infections within one day
on Sunday
.
In addition,
465
new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, as the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) announced in the morning.
The number of cases recorded is usually lower on Sundays, partly because fewer tests are carried out on the weekend.
Basically, the interpretation of the data is currently difficult because around Christmas and the turn of the year corona cases were discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay according to the RKI.
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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 162.2 on Sunday morning.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The differences between the federal states, however, are enormous: Saxony had the highest incidences with 269.8 and Thuringia with 232.4.
Bremen had the lowest value with 74.0.
Because of the holidays, the weekly values should also be assessed with caution.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted
1,908,527
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of January 10, 00:00 a.m.).
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
40,343
.
The RKI
stated the
number of
people recovered
to be
around
1,525,300
.
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According to the RKI report on Sunday, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
1.16
(Saturday: 1.17).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 116 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 around the turn of the year corona cases are only discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay, "so that the R-value may be underestimated".
Corona patients occupy fewer intensive care beds
For the first time in months, the number of intensive care beds occupied by Covid 19 patients in Germany has fallen for days.
This comes from the data of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), to which the numbers are reported daily by the hospitals.
Accordingly, the previous high was reached on January 3rd with 5762 occupied beds - since then there have been fewer and fewer.
Out of a total of 21,786 intensive care beds, 5,320 are currently Covid-19 patients.
4,938 beds are still available.
In contrast to the information on new infections, the number of intensive care beds occupied by Covid 19 patients is independent of the weekly rhythm.
How many people were newly infected with the pathogen is not immediately clear on and after weekends due to the delay in data transfer.
On the other hand, the number of intensive care beds occupied cannot provide any reliable information about the course of the pandemic.
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The rate of occupied beds can fluctuate for various reasons - for example, because the average treatment duration for intensive care patients changes.
According to current data, 27 percent of intensive care patients do not survive a disease with Covid-19.
In addition, intensive treatment is necessary, especially for older patients.
The number of occupied beds can therefore hardly provide reliable information about the spread of the pathogen among younger people.
Belgium: More than 20,000 deaths
The number of deaths related to the coronavirus has passed the 20,000 mark in Belgium.
The Belga news agency reported on Sunday, citing figures from the national health authority Sciensano.
Accordingly, the neighboring country of Germany complained between December 31 and January 6, an average of 58.4 deaths per day related to Covid-19.
That corresponds to a decrease of 15 percent.
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the number of deaths in the official corona statistics is a good 40,000.
Small Belgium, with around 11.5 million inhabitants, had the highest per capita corona infection rates in Europe in autumn.
15,000 new cases or more were recorded daily.
Strict restrictions have slowed the spread.
To this day, strict exit restrictions apply between midnight and 5 a.m.
Most recently, the country registered an average of around 1777 new infections per day, as Sciensano announced.
This corresponds to an increase of around 11 percent compared to the previous week.
In the past 14 days, there were 206 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Great Britain passes three million mark
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On Saturday,
Britain passed
the mark of three million people who have been shown to have contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic began in the country - that's a little less than five percent of the total population.
In no other country in Europe have so many cases been recorded.
Only on December 19, the threshold of two million infections was exceeded.
Three weeks after the start of the vaccination campaign in
Israel
, 20 percent of citizens have already been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Health Minister Juli Edelstein announced on Twitter on Sunday that around 1.8 million Israelis had received the first dose of vaccine.
In total, the small Mediterranean country has more than nine million inhabitants.
On Sunday, vaccination of the medical staff began with the second dose.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (71) also received his second vaccination against the corona virus on Saturday evening.
The government wants to vaccinate all residents of the country who are older than 16 years by the end of March.
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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Coronavirus numbers worldwide
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In the
United States
, over 22 million people have contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
On Saturday, 269,623 new infections and 3,656 deaths with a confirmed coronavirus infection were recorded within one day, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore on Sunday.
Since the pandemic began, more than 372,500 people have died from the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen.
In absolute terms, that's more than in any other country in the world.
Most cases of infection have so far occurred in California in the Los Angeles district, which also includes the metropolis of the same name.
According to JHU, over 889,000 people there were infected with the virus, and more than 11,800 died after being infected.
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