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The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days has risen sharply again: According to the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI), the
seven-day incidence
nationwide on Friday morning was
95.6
.
On Thursday it was 90, on Wednesday it was 86.2.
In addition, the health authorities in Germany reported
17,482 new
corona infections
within one day
- that is about 5000 more than exactly a week
ago
.
In addition,
226
further deaths were registered
within 24 hours
.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 12,834 new infections and 252 new deaths within one day.
Four weeks ago, on February 19, the incidence was
56.8
.
The number of new infections in Germany fell significantly for weeks in January and February.
Recently, however, it rose again, which could also be due to the spread of more contagious variants.
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The high of
1,244
newly reported deaths was reached on January 14th.
Among the new infections registered within 24 hours
, the highest value was reached on December 18
with
33,777
- but it contained 3500
late reports
.
The RKI has counted
2,629,750
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany
since the beginning of the pandemic
.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
The RKI
stated the
number of those who had
recovered
at
around
2,401,700
.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to
74,358
.
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According to the RKI situation report on Thursday evening, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
1.12
(previous day 1.06).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 112 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
Corona Europe
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France
recorded 38,501 new infections within 24 hours.
The French health authority reported the highest value since November on Wednesday evening.
29,975 cases of infection were recorded on Tuesday.
The number of deaths increased by 246 to 91,427.
The number of corona patients in intensive care units fell slightly to 4,219.
In view of the overloading of many French hospitals, Prime Minister Jean Castex wants to comment on a further tightening of the corona requirements in Paris on Thursday.
Among other things, exit restrictions are under discussion, including on weekends, as they already apply on the Côte d'Azur and in parts of northern France.
Nationwide there is also a night curfew from 6 p.m.
For the first time since November,
Belgium
has more than 3,000 new infections a day on a seven-day average, according to data from the Belgian authorities on Thursday.
Compared to the previous week, the value rose by 29 percent from March 8th to 14th to 3052. In the past two weeks, 330 infections per 100,000 inhabitants were counted daily in Belgium.
The number of hospital admissions has also been increasing for several weeks.
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In
Hungary
, more people have died in connection with a corona infection than ever before within 24 hours.
195 new deaths were reported from the health service on Wednesday.
The previous daily record of 193 was set at the beginning of December.
Almost 10,300 corona patients were treated in hospitals, it was said, also a high in Hungary.
At the beginning of February there had been barely more than a third as many.
According to the American Johns Hopkins University, the number of corona deaths per million inhabitants in Hungary is the seventh highest in the world.
In
Poland
, the authorities recorded 25,052 new corona infections within 24 hours - as many as last at the beginning of November.
As the Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday, 453 people died in connection with the virus over the same period.
The number of new infections is approaching the previous record high since the outbreak of the pandemic: On November 7, Poland reported 27,875 new corona cases within 24 hours.
Corona worldwide
Brazil
reported 90,303 new infections with the coronavirus on Wednesday - more than ever before.
According to the authorities, the number of deaths rose by 2,648, the second highest value after a record of 2,841 deaths on Tuesday.
In the South American country, a total of 284,775 deaths have been recorded since the pandemic began.
This makes Brazil the second hardest hit country in the world after the USA.
The number of new infections
continues to decline
in the
United States
.
56,930 new cases were reported on Wednesday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Thursday morning (CET).
That is around 1000 less than a week earlier.
The number of deaths related to an infection fell by around 400 to 1,138.
The previous highs were registered on January 2nd with 300,416 new infections and on January 12th with 4,470 deaths.
India
recorded as many corona cases within one day as it has not in three months.
The Ministry of Health's figures on Wednesday show that around 29,000 people have become newly infected and 188 people have died in connection with Covid-19.
The maximum values last summer were almost 100,000 new infections per day.
In January it was around 10,000.