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The health authorities in Germany

reported

7556 new

corona infections to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day

.

In addition,

560

more deaths were recorded

within 24 hours

, according to figures from the RKI on Wednesday.

The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 6.45 a.m., subsequent changes or additions are possible.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 8072 new infections and 813 new deaths within one day.

These numbers included around 600 late reports of new infections from North Rhine-Westphalia that were missing the day before.

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

In the case of new infections registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reached on December 18 with 33,777 - but it contained 3500 late reports.

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The number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was

57.0

nationwide on Wednesday morning, according to the RKI

.

Four weeks ago, on January 17th, the incidence had been 136.

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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There are now three federal states below the 50 mark:

Baden-Württemberg

(43.6),

Rhineland-Palatinate

(45.3) and

Berlin

(48.5).

Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate have fallen below the value for a long time, Berlin still had an incidence of 52 on Tuesday, according to the RKI.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted

2,350,399

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of

February 17

, 4.36 a.m.).

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

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 66,164.

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According to the RKI situation report from Tuesday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.84 (previous day 0.86).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 84 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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According to Health Minister Jens Spahn, the spread of virus mutations is already more than 23 percent in Germany, if you take the British and South African variants together.

The CDU politician announced this on Wednesday.

After that, a share of more than 22 percent of the British variants was found among the positive cases.

You see an almost weekly doubling.

In addition, there is the proportion of the South African variant, which is around 1.5 percent.

Successful vaccination in Israel

More than half of all people in

Israel

over the age of 30 have been vaccinated against the coronavirus at least once.

Health Minister Juli Edelstein wrote this on Twitter on Wednesday.

In total, around 4.1 million first and 2.7 million second vaccinations have been given since December 19.

Israel has around 9.3 million people.

Around 30 percent of them are younger than 16 years;

this group cannot be vaccinated for the time being.

For comparison: Germany has around nine times as many inhabitants as Israel.

So far, around 2.8 million people there have received a first and around 1.5 million also a second vaccination (as of February 16).

Corona in Europe

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The number of infections with the British and South African virus mutations in

Austria

has risen to well over a thousand.

Nationally were

1,375

such cases have been detected, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Tuesday, citing the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Ages).

In

1096

cases there were infections with variant

B.1.1.7

, which

initially appeared in Great Britain,

and the South African mutant

B.1.351

had

been detected

279

times.

According to the state of Tyrol, the number of cases with this mutation is already

318

.

According to the APA, 768 other suspected cases are still being examined across the country.

3993 analysis results are still pending.

According to the information, the more

contagious variant

B.1.1.7

has already been detected in all Austrian federal states.

With

471

cases, this variant was

detected

most frequently in

Vienna

, followed by Burgenland with 189 cases and Salzburg with 177. In Tyrol, 74 cases have been discovered so far.

In

Malta

, the health authorities have so far

detected the British variant

in

49

cases and the South African variant in one case.

Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Tuesday in Valletta.

The Maltese authorities have registered a little more than

20,000

infections and almost

300

deaths related to the virus

since the first corona detection in March 2020

.

In

Denmark

,

45 percent of

the positive

corona tests

examined for their gene sequence show the British variant

B.1.1.7 of

the virus.

This value results for the second week of February, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.

The British variant is considered to be significantly more contagious than the corona virus, which has been rampant to date.

Corona worldwide

In the

US

, the number of new infections within 24 hours is

56,384

cases.

According to the US epidemic authority CDC, a total of more than 27.5 million people have been proven to be infected with the corona virus.

In total, more than

485,000

people died in connection with the coronavirus.

The US government will significantly increase vaccine shipments to US states.

From now on,

13.5 million vaccine doses

would be

delivered

weekly

, an increase of 57 percent compared to the time President Joe Biden took office on January 20, said White House press secretary Jens Psaki.

The government will also double the volume of deliveries to pharmacies across the country, she said - to two million doses a week.

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