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In Germany,

96

regions

currently exceed

a seven-day incidence of 200, from which exit restrictions such as a 15-kilometer radius apply or are possible according to the federal-state resolution.

The front runner is the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia.

The health department there reported

601.8

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants

in the past seven days

.

Also in a nationwide comparison, the

districts of

Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (493.5), Hildburghausen (487.4), the Saalekreis (473.8) and the Altenburger Land district (473.2)

show many new infections within seven days

.

With the district of Wittenberg (432.2), the Saale-Orla district (427.1) and the districts of Teltow-Fläming (405.9) and Meißen (401.7), a total of nine districts have a seven-day incidence from 400.

With a

seven-day incidence

of 310.4,

Thuringia

is

currently the most severely affected state by the pandemic,

ahead of

Saxony

(292.4).

It is noticeable that rural areas in particular are particularly affected by the virus.

The major cities of Leipzig (187.5), Dresden (183.0) and Chemnitz (198.5) are the only regions in Saxony below the 200 threshold.

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The number of corona deaths reported to the Robert Koch Institute peaked on Thursday morning.

Within a day, the German health authorities reported

1,244 new deaths

.

In addition,

25,164 new infections

were reported.

The seven-day incidence in Germany is 151.2.

The previous high of 1188 deaths was reached on January 8th.

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.

Basically, the interpretation of the data is still somewhat difficult at the moment, because according to the RKI cases were discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay around the turn of the year.

The RKI has counted

1,978,590

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2

since the beginning of the pandemic

.

(Status: January 14th, 00.00 a.m.).

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

43,881

.

The RKI stated the number of people recovered at around 1,620,200.

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According to Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and the RKI, one percent of the German population has now been vaccinated against the corona virus.

According to the RKI numbers,

842,455

people received the vaccine.

The RKI stated the vaccination quota for the first vaccination at

1.01 percent

.

Compared to the previous day, 78,116 new vaccinations were added.

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According to the RKI report on Wednesday, the

nationwide

seven-day R value

was

1.02

(previous day: 1.07).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 102 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.

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The seven-day incidence is an essential measure for the imposition and relaxation of measures against the spread of the novel virus.

The aim of the federal government is to reduce the incidence to below 50.

Due to the high number of infections, there will be a hard lockdown in Germany at least until January 31.

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In

Austria

, the number of new infections every day increases by leaps and bounds by 1593 to

3510

.

Authorities attribute this to late reports from Upper Austria and Carinthia.

The country has been in lockdown since December 26th.

In view of the fear of the virus mutation spreading from Great Britain, there is speculation about an extension.

The government wants to comment on this in the next few days.

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In the

United States

the disease CDC counted on Wednesday

4,131

deaths and

217,313

new infections.

According to official information, more than

22.7 million

people have been infected with Sars-CoV-2

in the country with around 330 million inhabitants,

and at least

379,255

people have died of or with the infection.

In absolute terms, that's more than in any other country in the world.

The pandemic is currently also spreading more rapidly in Asia.

Indonesia

reported

a record

number of 11,557

new positive tests.

This

brings

the total number of cases to

869,600

, according to data from the country's Covid-19 task force on Thursday.

The number of deaths increases according to the information by

295

to

25,246

.