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In Germany, over 18,000
People infected with the coronavirus.
The health authorities reported
18,678
new corona infections to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
within 24 hours, as the RKI announced on Saturday morning.
This means that the number of cases that have become known since the beginning of the pandemic rose to
2,019,636
(as of
January 16
, 12 a.m.).
22,368 new infections had been reported the day before.
In addition,
980
new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
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.
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The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) reported to the health authorities within seven days fell to
139.2
on Saturday morning
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
The differences between the federal states, however, are currently enormous: Thuringia has the highest incidences with 268.3 and Saxony with 255.8.
Bremen has the lowest value at 80.
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The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
45,974
.
The RKI stated the number of people recovered to be around 1,657,900.
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 eight to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
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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
.
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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
.
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
.
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.
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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
On Friday,
Spain
reported more than 40,000 new infections within one day for the first time since the start of the corona pandemic.
The number of infections rose by 40,197 to a total of more than 2.25 million, said the Ministry of Health in Madrid.
The previous high was reached on Wednesday with 38,869.
Because the numbers have been increasing for weeks, several regions decided on Friday to tighten the measures to contain the pandemic.
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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.
In
Portugal
, the number of infections and deaths has risen faster than ever since the epidemic began.
The country reported
10,947
new cases and an additional
166
deaths
on Saturday
.
This increases the total number of infections to 539,416 in a population of just over ten million.
8709 people died from or with the virus.
The
14-day incidence
in Portugal is
901
, almost twice that of neighboring Spain, according to data from the European Disease Center.
The country's hospitals are reaching their limits.
According to the health authorities, there are 672 intensive care beds for Covid patients in Portugal.
Of these, 638 are occupied.
Coronavirus numbers worldwide
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Since the beginning of the pandemic
worldwide
died more than two million people by an infection 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.
Israel has a little over nine million inhabitants.
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In the
United States
, the CDC counted 3,904 deaths and 227,746 new infections on Friday.
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.
In
China
, the number of new corona infections fell for the first time in days.
130 new Covid 19 cases became known within 24 hours, as the health authority announced in Beijing on Saturday.
The day before, 138 was the highest value since March 1, 2020.
According to official information, the total number of confirmed corona cases is now 88,118.
The number of deaths remained unchanged at 4,635.