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The seven-day incidence in Germany has been rising again for three days.

According to the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday, the

seven-day incidence

in Germany is

63.8

(previous day 62.6).

The nationwide highest incidence is still

Thuringia

with

125.5

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

With

Baden-Württemberg

only one federal state is below the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

The seven-day incidence in the southwest is currently

49.3

.

In the meantime, Rhineland-Palatinate (currently 53.9), Schleswig-Holstein (50.2) and Berlin (61.8) also fell below the threshold.

The number of counties that cross the threshold of

super hotspots is also

growing again.

According to RKI information from Saturday,

seven

districts

currently exceed

the threshold of 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

The day before, this value was five.

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The district of

Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge

(300.0), followed by the district of

Tirschenreuth

(249.8), the

Vogtlandkreis

(238.5), the city of

Weiden in the Upper Palatinate

(236.3) and the districts of

Hildburghausen

still recorded the strongest infection rate

(226.3),

Schmalkalden-Meiningen

(224.2) and the

Kyffhäuserkreis

(212.9).

As of Saturday,

55

urban and rural districts fell below the

limit

of 35 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants (previous day 75).

A total of

158

are below an incidence of 50 (previous day 188).

In total, the RKI collects data from 412 counties, urban districts and Berlin districts.

However, the number of new infections registered is regularly higher at the weekend than at the beginning of the week.

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Within one day, the health authorities

reported

9762 new

corona infections to

the RKI

.

In addition,

369

new deaths were recorded

within 24 hours

.

That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Saturday.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 9164 new infections and 490 new deaths within one day.

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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.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted

2,434,446

detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany.

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

2,243,200

.

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

69,888

.

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Infected people are also infecting more people again:

According to the RKI

, the nationwide

seven-day R value rose

to 1.11 on Saturday (previous day: 1.08).

100 infected people mathematically pass the virus on to 111 other people.

The value depicts the infection process 8 to 16 days ago.

The infection rate decreases below one - it increases above one.

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Finland

has reached

a new daily high in the corona pandemic

with

720

new infections within 24 hours.

The health authority THL announced on Friday.

Just the day before, the government announced stricter measures for the period from March 8 to 28.

The British mutant in particular is spreading in Finland, it is considered to be more contagious.

The Czech Republic leads

the EU in terms of the rate of new infections.

The number of corona deaths there has

risen

to almost

20,000

since the beginning of the pandemic

.

As the Ministry of Health announced in Prague on Friday,

19,999

people who had previously tested positive for the Sars-CoV-2 virus died.

The number of people ever infected rose

by 14,457

to more than

1.2 million

within 24 hours

.

The EU member state has around 10.7 million inhabitants.

The cabinet in Prague has now officially given the green light for talks with Germany and Poland about a possible takeover of corona intensive care patients.

According to Health Minister Jan Blatny, this should only happen when it is absolutely necessary.

The health system is at its limit in some regions.

Almost

7,200

Covid-19 patients are being treated in the hospital.

According to a senior emergency physician in Paris,

France

will not be able to avoid new lockdown measures.

"I do not understand what we are waiting for," said Philippe Juvin, head of the emergency department of a Paris hospital, the broadcaster BFM TV on Friday.

The situation in hospitals in the Paris region is very tense.

Corona worldwide

In Israel,

50 percent of

the population received at least the first vaccination, as Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced.

35 percent

have already received both doses of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine.

Since the start of the vaccination campaign shortly before Christmas, around

4.7 million

people have received the first vaccination and the second vaccination around

3.3 million

.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there were 9.294 million people in Israel in December.

Despite the vaccination efforts, the number of new infections has recently remained at a high level.

According to the Ministry of Health,

3782

new cases were registered

within 24 hours

.

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In

Russia

, the health authorities reported

11,534

new infections within 24 hours

on Saturday

.

This increases the number of proven cases of infection to over

4.23 million

.

Russia has the fourth highest number of infections worldwide after the USA, India and Brazil.

The number of deaths related to the coronavirus increases by

439

to

85,743

.