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In Germany, over

two million people have been

infected with the virus

since the outbreak of the corona pandemic

.

The health authorities reported

22,368

new corona infections to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

within 24 hours, as the RKI announced on Friday morning.

This means that the number of cases that have become known since the beginning of the pandemic rose to

2,000,958

(as of January 15, 00:00).

It should be noted that the actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, since many infections are not recognized.

The number of new infections reported is on a

weekday comparison

at the lowest level in over two months.

Compared to Friday a week ago, they fell by almost 10,000 cases to just under 22,400, as the reports from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) show.

The last time on Friday the numbers were lower on November 6th.

The RKI had not reported any figures on New Year's and Christmas Day, both Fridays.

These would hardly have been resilient anyway because of the holidays.

There had been fears that because of Christmas and especially New Year's Eve celebrations, the number of infections would rise again, which should be reflected in the numbers from now on.

On the Friday before Christmas, over 30,000 new infections were reported.

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On Friday,

1113

new deaths

were also

recorded in a 24-hour period.

The previous high of 1,244 new deaths was reached on Thursday.

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 currently a bit difficult because around the turn of the year, according to the RKI, corona cases were discovered, recorded and transmitted with a delay.

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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

146.1

on Friday morning

.

Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.

However, the differences between the federal states are currently enormous: Thuringia has the highest incidences with 287.6 and Saxony with 274.1.

Bremen has the lowest value with 78.7.

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 the past few days, the number of registered new infections has risen again, according to the RKI situation report on Thursday evening.

Whether this trend will continue beyond the expected follow-up tests and late registrations will only be seen in the course of the next few days.

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

44,994

.

The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 1,641,200.

According to the RKI report on Thursday, the

nationwide

seven-day R-value

was

1.02

(previous day: also 1.02).

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.

Thuringia and Saxony with the highest seven-day incidence

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In Germany, exit restrictions such as a 15-kilometer radius can apply from a seven-day incidence of 200 or more.

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

The health department there reported

524.2

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants

in the past seven days

.

Also in a nationwide comparison, the

districts of

Altenburger Land (501.2), Hildburghausen (444.6) and Wittenberg (437)

show many new infections within seven days

.

With a

seven-day incidence

of 287.6,

Thuringia

is

currently the most severely affected state by the pandemic,

ahead of

Saxony

(274.1).

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

New daily high of vaccinations since vaccination started in December

94,654

people in Germany were vaccinated against the coronavirus

within one day

.

This is the highest daily value to date that has been transmitted by the RKI since the vaccination campaign began at the end of December.

According to the report on Friday, the total number of vaccinations approached

the million

mark

at

961,682

.

This involves the first of two injections that are required for complete vaccination protection.

The second round of vaccination should start this weekend.

So far, the product from the German manufacturer Biontech and its US partner Pfizer has been used primarily, and to a lesser extent that from the US manufacturer Moderna.

According to the RKI, a nationwide rate of

1.16

percent

has so far been achieved for initial vaccinations

.

In order to achieve what is known as herd immunity, it is estimated that more than 60 percent of the population would have to be vaccinated.

The vaccination campaign is currently being slowed down mainly by the lack of vaccines.

The at times large differences between the federal states became somewhat smaller.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania remains the front runner with a vaccination rate of 2.2 percent, ahead of Schleswig-Holstein with 1.82 percent.

Baden-Württemberg is now at the bottom with a rate of 0.84 percent, behind Thuringia with 0.9 percent.

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According to the "Politbarometer" published by ZDF on Friday, 67 percent of people currently state that they want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.

At the end of November last year it was 51 percent.

The federally owned Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) has so far not had any indications of possible increased side effects with vaccinations against the corona virus.

By Sunday, 325 suspected cases had been reported to him, the PEI announced on Thursday in Langen, Hesse.

51 cases are to be assessed as serious.

The values ​​are consistent with the data from the clinical approval studies and also statistically inconspicuous.

"So far we have not seen any new risk signals," said PEI expert Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski to journalists on Thursday.

At the same time, she emphasized that these were suspected cases in which a causal relationship to the vaccination had not been proven.

PEI President Klaus Cichutek emphasized that the risks of the two approved vaccines are "very, very limited" according to the current status.

Coronavirus in Europe

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France

reported a decrease in the number of new infections every day from 23,852 to 21,228 on Thursday.

However, the number of hospital cases rose by 248 to 25,017 and that of intensive care cases by 15 to 2726. In addition, 282 further deaths were recorded.

Just before a month-long lockdown began,

Portugal

registered

a record of new infections with the coronavirus.

The health authorities announced on Thursday in Lisbon that 10,698 new infections were reported within 24 hours.

The highest value so far had only been reached the day before with 10,556.

148 people died in one day with Covid-19 - eight fewer than Wednesday's peak.

Coronavirus numbers worldwide

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Over 92.22 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus.

1.979 million died of or with the virus, according to a Reuters survey based on official data.

The number of new infections with the coronavirus remains

very high

in

Israel

.

As the country's Ministry of Health announced on Friday, another 9172 cases were registered within 24 hours.

It was the fourth day in a row that the value of 9000 was exceeded, so far it has only been five times higher.

The record comes from last Monday with 9710 new infections.

For comparison: Israel has a little more than nine million inhabitants, Germany around nine times as many.

There, 22,368 new corona infections were recently announced within 24 hours.

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In the

United States

, the CDC counted

4096

deaths and

225,815

new infections

on Thursday

.

In the country with around 330 million inhabitants, according to official information, more than

22.9 million

people have been infected with Sars-CoV-2, and at least

383,351

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

.