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The German health authorities

reported

10,485

new corona infections to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

within one day.

In addition,

689

new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, according to figures from the RKI on Saturday.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 12,321 new infections and 794 new deaths within 24 hours.

The high of 1,244 new reported deaths was reached on January 14.

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.

The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 77.3 on Saturday morning, according to the RKI.

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

Most federal states continue to record falling seven-day incidences, according to the RKI.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 2,275,394 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of February 6, midnight).

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher as many infections are not detected.

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 61,286.

The RKI stated the number of people recovered at around 2,020,900.

The number of intensive care patients has fallen below 4,000.

As can be seen from the time series of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi),

3958

Covid-19 sufferers were treated in intensive care

on Saturday

(as of 12:17 p.m.).

That was 108 less than the day before.

Over half of the patients received invasive ventilation.

The last time the number of corona intensive care patients was below 4,000 on December 3, it had risen to over 5,700 by the beginning of January.

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The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.95 according to the RKI situation report from Saturday evening (previous day 0.93).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 95 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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Tirschenreuth and Hof with the highest corona incidence

Three federal states exceeded an incidence value of 100 on Saturday, i.e. the number of new infections reported per 100,000 inhabitants within one week: Thuringia (144), Saxony-Anhalt (116.1) and Saarland (115.7).

Saxony is just below the value with an incidence of 97.4.

The border region with the Czech Republic remains a focus of the corona pandemic in Germany.

The districts of Tirschenreuth (352.6), Hof (309.1) and the town of Hof (299) and Wunsiedel i.

Fichtel Mountains (297.3) in Bavaria.

A total of 10 rural and urban districts reported incidences over 200 on Saturday, most of them in Bavaria and Thuringia.

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The lowest incidences are currently in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, where the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants fell below 70 in the last seven days.

In 81 urban and rural districts, the incidence is now again below the limit value of 50. On Friday it was only 74. Zweibrücken (14.6) and Dithmarschen (17.2) currently have the best values.

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So far, three vaccines against the coronavirus have been approved in Germany - from Astrazeneca, Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna.

According to the Ministry of Health, a total of around 3.1 million vaccine doses have been injected on Saturday: 2.2 million people received the first vaccination, around 900,000 even the second vaccination.

According to the Ministry of Health, 2.7 percent of the total population are vaccinated for the first time.

Corona worldwide

The number of new infections in

Russia rose

by 16,627 to more than 3.95 million within 24 hours.

As the authorities announced on Saturday, another 497 people died of or with the corona virus.

This increases the total number of deaths to 76,229.

After the USA, India and Brazil, Russia has the highest number of cases of infection worldwide.

In the

Netherlands

, the number of confirmed coronavirus infections exceeds one million.

Since the first case found on February 27 of last year,

1,001,826

people have tested positive for the virus, according to the Institute of Public Health.

The sum of the actual previous infections in the country with 17 million inhabitants is likely to be significantly higher, however, because the test capacities were temporarily insufficient.

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