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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 Friday, the
nationwide
seven-day R value
was
0.99
(previous day: 1.02).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 99 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.
Coronavirus in Europe
For the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic,
Spain
has reported more than 40,000 new infections within one day.
The number of infections rose by 40,197 to a total of more than 2.25 million, the Ministry of Health announced in Madrid on Friday.
The previous high was reached on Wednesday with 38,869.
Because the numbers have been increasing for weeks, several regions, including Madrid, decided to tighten measures to contain the pandemic on Friday.
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Despite the lockdown, the number of new infections in the
UK is
increasing every day
.
On Friday, authorities reported 55,761 new cases, up from 48,682 the previous day.
In addition, more than 1,000 new deaths were recorded for the fourth day in a row.
At 1280, their number was roughly the same as the day before.
Coronavirus numbers worldwide
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than two million people have died after being infected with the coronavirus.
That came out on Friday from data from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
So far there have been more than 93 million confirmed infections with the virus worldwide.
Experts assume an even higher number of unreported cases.
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.
In the
United States
the disease CDC counted on Friday
3,904
deaths and
227,746
new infections.
In the country with around 330 million inhabitants, according to official information, more than
23.1 million
people have been infected with Sars-CoV-2, and at least
387,255
people have died of or with the infection.
In absolute terms, that's more than in any other country in the world.