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At the end of last year, significantly more people died in Germany than the average in previous years.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, the number of deaths in the week before Christmas was 24 percent above the average.
In Saxony the numbers have even doubled.
The preliminary figures of the special evaluation were available on Friday up to the 51st calendar week, that was from December 14th to 20th, 2020. At least 23,550 people died that week - 4568 more than the average for 2016 to 2019. The week before that the death rate was 25 percent above the average.
“The number of deaths of people who were previously laboratory-confirmed with Covid-19 has been increasing from week to week since the beginning of October,” the statisticians reported on Friday.
In the 51st calendar week, there were a total of 4484 Covid-19 deaths reported to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
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"The development of the death rate is still particularly noticeable in Saxony," stated the Wiesbaden statisticians.
“The difference to the average of the four previous years has been increasing significantly from week to week since October.” In the 41st calendar week at the beginning of October, the number of deaths was still below the average.
In the 51st calendar week, the number - based on the average of the four previous years for this week - more than doubled: by 109 percent or 1,226 deaths.
In Brandenburg (plus 41 percent), Hesse (plus 32 percent) and Thuringia (plus 36 percent), the number of deaths was well above the average for the years 2016 to 2019.
The network for the observation of mortality trends currently reports an extraordinarily high excess mortality for Switzerland and Slovenia for the 51st calendar week.
High excess mortality is reported for Italy, the Netherlands, Austria and Portugal.