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The number of corona intensive care patients registered in hospitals has fallen below 3000 for the first time since November 9, 2020.
The Divi Intensive Care Register reported
2949
intensive care patients suffering from Covid-19
at noon
.
That is
82
less than the day before.
According to the registry's daily report,
59
percent
of patients are ventilated invasively.
A total of
22,485
intensive care
beds are
occupied
in Germany
,
4425
beds are currently free.
Within one day, the health authorities
reported
8007
new corona infections to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
.
In addition,
422
additional deaths were recorded
within 24 hours
.
That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Wednesday.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 7556 new infections and 560 new deaths within one day.
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According to the RKI, the
number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days (
seven-day incidence
) was
59.3
nationwide on Tuesday morning
- and thus lower than the day before (60.5).
Four weeks ago, on January 27, the incidence had been 101.0.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
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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
.
The number of
deaths
in the second week of February was at the same level as in the same period in previous years.
A total of 20,468 deaths were registered in the sixth calendar week (February 8 to 14), as the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday.
This corresponds to the average for the years 2017 to 2020.
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The nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
0.98
(previous day 1.05)
according to the RKI management report from Tuesday evening
.
This means that 100 infected people infect 98 more 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.
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted
2,402,818
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of
February 24, 3:10
a.m.).
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher since many infections are not detected.
The RKI
stated the
number of those who had
recovered
at
around
2,217,700
.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
68,740
.
The
most new infections
are currently available in Thuringia, where the seven-day incidence in 119 is followed by Saxony-Anhalt (81) and Bremen (72).
The
slightest infection event
reports currently Baden-Württemberg (46), followed by Schleswig-Holstein (50) and Rheinland-Pfalz (52).
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75
urban and rural districts are currently below the
limit
of 35 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants,
188
below an incidence of 50. The districts of
Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge
(325) and
Tirschenreuth
(304) are the worst affected.
Only two other districts (
Weiden in der Oberpfalz
and
Schmalkalden-Meiningen
) report incidences beyond 200. In total, the RKI collects data from 412 districts.
Corona in Europe
In view of the significantly increased number of cases, the restrictions in
Poland are to
be tightened again, for example through entry restrictions and new mask rules, said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski on Wednesday.
He points out that with
12,146
new positive tests there was an increase of more than
3500
cases within a week.
Poland had first relaxed some restrictions by opening ski slopes, cinemas, hotels and theaters with a capacity of up to 50 percent.
The
current curfew is also being held
in the
Netherlands
due to the increasing number of infections.
From March
2nd,
hairdressers, beauticians and masseurs will be able to receive customers again, as Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Tuesday evening in The Hague.
Some corona measures are being relaxed, especially for young people.
In the past seven days, around
30,000
new infections had been registered, 19 percent more than in the previous week.
For every 100,000 inhabitants, there are more than
150
infected people within seven days.
Likewise in
Greece
: Due to the sharp rise in the number of infections, the government is canceling the lockdown for the greater Athens area, where around half of the country's population lives.
On Tuesday, authorities reported
2,147
new infections, about half of them in the Attica region around Athens, and
22
deaths related to the virus.
Corona worldwide
As the first country ever,
Ghana received
600,000
AstraZeneca cans from the international Covax initiative
on Wednesday
.
According to the pan-African health authority Africa CDC, around
3.8 million
corona cases and around
102,000
deaths have been recorded in
Africa
.
In Ghana, West Africa, with around 30.4 million inhabitants, around 80,700 corona infections have occurred so far.
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The US disease control agency CDC.
The reported Tuesday
27.9 million
proven infections and
498,993
deaths, an increase of
55,419
new infections and
1,578
dead the previous day.
The vaccination campaign in the
USA is also
progressing: to date, more than
44.5 million
people in the USA have received the first vaccination, around
19.8 million
people have already received both vaccine doses, according to data from the CDC.