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In Germany, more than 50,000 people have died in connection with the coronavirus since the pandemic began.
The German health authorities reported
859
new deaths to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
within 24 hours, as the RKI announced on Friday morning.
This brought the total number of deaths to
50,642
.
Exactly one week ago,
1113
new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
The high of
1,244
new deaths was reached on January 14th.
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The RKI counts demonstrably infected people who died directly from Corona and those with previous illnesses for which the cause of death cannot be conclusively clarified as a Covid 19 death.
It is at the discretion of the health department whether to submit a case to the RKI as deceased "to" or "with" Covid-19.
Researchers assume that the number of Covid 19 deaths would be many times higher without the corona restrictions.
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The health authorities also reported
17,862
new corona infections to
the RKI
within one day.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded
22,368
new infections.
The high of
33,777
new infections registered within 24 hours was reported on December 18 - but this included 3,500
late reports
.
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The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was
115.3
on Friday morning, according to the RKI
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at
197.6
.
The number fluctuated after that and has been falling again for a few days.
The differences between the federal states, however, remain large: Thuringia has the highest incidences with
218.4
and Brandenburg with
194.4
.
Bremen has the lowest value with
80.9
.
The RKI has counted
2,106,262
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany
since the beginning of the pandemic
(as of January 22, 00:00).
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher as many infections are not detected.
The RKI
stated the
number of
people recovered
to be
around
1,780,200
.
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The nationwide seven-day R-value was
0.93
(previous day:
0.87
)
according to the RKI situation report from Thursday evening
.
This means that 100 infected people infect 93 other 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.
Number of corona vaccinations exceeds one million mark
On Thursday, the RKI reported that
96,941
vaccinations had been carried out
in Germany the day before
.
This means that
1,324,091
people (
1.6 percent of
the total population) have received a first vaccination and 77,602 people have already received a second vaccination.
More than 672,000 vaccinations were given to people in the health and care professions, followed by residents of nursing homes (472,402) and the elderly (360,436).
The number of booster vaccinations is likely to increase significantly in the next few days.
After the second injection, it usually takes a week before full vaccination protection is assumed.
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Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is at the forefront of vaccinations with a vaccination rate of 2.76 percent of the population, followed by Schleswig-Holstein with 2.59 percent.
Baden-Württemberg comes in last with a rate of 1.22 percent.
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Coronavirus in Europe
Portugal
reported a new high of infections within 24 hours on Wednesday.
The
14,647
new cases would be converted to Germany, which has around eight times as many inhabitants,
or
almost 120,000 infections in a single day.
13,544
new infections were reported
on Thursday
.
Compared to other countries in Europe, Portugal got through the pandemic relatively lightly for a long time.
The situation has been getting worse since autumn.
According to the latest figures from the EU agency ECDC, 1215 people per 100,000 inhabitants were infected with the virus within 14 days.
Only two of the 30 countries recorded are worse off: Ireland with around 1444 and the Czech Republic with 1362. For Germany, this value was slightly more than 319.
Coronavirus numbers worldwide
In
Africa
, the coronavirus-related death rate is now 2.5 percent, higher than the global rate of 2.2 percent.
This is very worrying, said CDC head of the CDC, John Nkengasong.
More and more African countries recorded an above-average death rate.
It is currently over three percent in 21 countries, including Egypt, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan.
The number of infections on the continent is 3.3 million,
81,000
people have died.
In the past week,
207,000
new infections were registered, around half of them in South Africa alone.
In the
United States
, more than 24 million people have contracted the coronavirus.
The CDC reported
153,106
new infections and
2,297
new deaths related to the Coronavirus
on Wednesday
.
In total, the authority counts 400,407 corona deaths.
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Israel
now gives pregnant women priority access to
Covid vaccinations
.
According to the national pandemic coordinator, the decision is associated with the assessment that there are no risks for the women and the fetus.
Almost
34 percent of
the population had already received the vaccine from Pfizer / Biontech by Wednesday evening, according to health officials.