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With its corona vaccination program, the US has broken its previous record of vaccine doses administered within one day.
On Saturday, 3.5 million vaccinations were reported, wrote the senior corona advisor in the White House, Andy Slavitt, on Twitter.
This is a maximum.
Previously, the record on Friday was just under 3.4 million doses administered within one day.
According to the White House, a value of more than 3 million vaccinations was again achieved on Sunday - for the third day in a row.
According to the US health authority CDC, more than 143 million vaccine doses have been injected nationwide.
A good 36 percent of adults in the country have received at least one vaccination dose, 20 percent of adults are fully vaccinated.
Three vaccines are currently in use in the USA: In addition to the preparations from Moderna and Biontech / Pfizer, in which two doses are injected, the vaccine from Johnson & Johnson, which unfolds its full effect after just one dose, is also used.
Before taking office on January 20, US President Joe Biden had promised that at least 100 million vaccinations would be administered in his first 100 days in office.
The goal was achieved a few days ago, after almost 60 days in office.
In the meantime, Biden has doubled his original goal: by the end of his first 100 days as president at the end of April, a total of 200 million vaccinations are to be administered.
Seven-day incidence in Germany rises to 130
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In Germany, more than 17,100 new corona infections were reported within one day.
As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Sunday morning, citing information from the health authorities,
17,176 new infections were
detected.
More than 20,400 new infections were registered on Saturday; on the previous Sunday the number was 13,733.
The number of new infections is usually lower on weekends than the weekly average, because fewer tests are carried out on the weekends and fewer test results are transmitted.
The
seven-day incidence
rose further to
129.7
on Sunday
.
On Saturday, the nationwide incidence value was 124.9 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week and on Sunday of last week it was 103.9.
In
Thuringia
, 944 further corona cases were reported on Sunday.
As the State Chancellery announced, the incidence rose to 232 after a slight decrease on Saturday
. On Sunday, after a brief improvement on Saturday, the
district of Greiz
was again the district worst hit by the pandemic in Germany.
There the incidence was a good
514
.
In the Saale-Orla district, which was the number one corona hotspot in Germany on Saturday (514), it went back to 386.
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The
nationwide seven-day R-value
was reported to RKI management report from Sunday evening at 1.17 (1.19 the previous day).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 117 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.
The RKI also reported
90 more deaths
in connection with Covid-19 disease
this Sunday
.
This means that 75,870 people have died in this country since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of corona infections across Germany is now 2,772,401.
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.
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According to the RKI situation report on Sunday evening, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value was
1.17
(previous day 1.19).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 117 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.
In view of the increasing number of infections, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the heads of government of the countries agreed on the extension of the applicable lockdown rules until April 18 at their Corona summit on Tuesday night.
In addition, further regional restrictions have now been decided.
RKI President Lothar Wieler warned on Friday that there were “clear signals” that the third corona wave that has now started “can become even worse than the first two waves”.
Corona in Euroa
In
France
, the number of intensive care patients with a corona infection has risen again and has reached a new high since the beginning of the year.
According to the Ministry of Health, 4,872 people were treated in intensive care units on Sunday (after 4,791 on Saturday).
The number was lower than in November and under the more than 7,000 intensive care patients in the spring of last year.
In an article for the newspaper "Le Journal du Dimanche", 41 hospital doctors from the Paris region said there was a risk that not all patients could receive emergency treatment.
In
Ukraine
, more patients with Covid-19 came to hospitals within 24 hours than ever before.
Health Minister Maksim Stepanov announced on Facebook on Sunday that 5052 people were hospitalized.
That surpasses the last high of 4,887 patients on March 17th.
The number of infections in Ukraine has recently risen sharply.
On Sunday, the country reported 11,932 new infections within one day.
203 other people died in connection with the virus.
Since the pandemic started, Ukraine has recorded 1.64 million infections and 31,954 deaths.
The vaccination has been going on for about a month.
So far, almost 200,000 of the 41 million Ukrainians have received the first vaccination.
Coronavirus worldwide
China
has given over 100 million vaccine doses so far.
Almost five million were added on Saturday alone, so that the total number is now 102.42 million, as the National Health Commission announced on Sunday.
According to official information, the number of infections is a total of 90,167, plus eight within one day.
The last death related to the virus occurred on January 25th.
A total of 4636 people died from or with the corona virus in China.