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The health authorities in Germany

reported

24,300 new corona infections to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day

.

In addition,

201 new deaths were

recorded

within 24 hours

.

That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Thursday.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 22,657 new infections and 228 new deaths within one day.

The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard from 5.30 a.m., subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.

According to the RKI, the

number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (

seven-day incidence

) was

134.2

nationwide on Thursday morning

- and thus slightly above the level from the previous day (132.3).

The RKI has counted

2,833,173 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 number of

convalescent

gave the RKI with about

2,535,000

on.

The total number of people suffering from or involving a proven infection with SARS-CoV 2

dead

are rising to

76,543

.

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The nationwide

seven-day R-value

was

0.97

according to the RKI situation report from Wednesday evening

(previous day: 1.01).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 97 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.

Coronavirus in Europe

The third wave continues to spread in Europe.

Some neighboring countries are already more affected than Germany.

In neighboring

France

, the seven-day incidence is

370.6

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week,

according to the Ministry of Health on Tuesday

.

On Monday, the Grande Nation counted

9,094

new infections and

360

new deaths.

A total of

94,956

people died of or with Covid-19.

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Even

Austria

is affected by the spread of mutations: The seven-day incidence as estimated on Tuesday at

257.7

.

In Vienna, the infection rate is the

strongest

with a value of

342.7

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week.

The number of patients in Austrian intensive care units was

537

on Monday

, a month ago it was about half as many.

The peak was reached at the end of November with 709 intensive care patients.

Authorities in

Poland

reported

20,870

new infections and

461

deaths

on Tuesday

.

The total number of deaths rose to

52,392

.

Since March 21, Poland has been a high-incidence area with a seven-day incidence of well over 200.

Unlike France, Poland and the Czech Republic, Austria is not one of the high incidence areas according to the RKI.

The neighboring countries Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and, since March 28, Denmark again, are also

“simple”

risk

areas.

Coronavirus worldwide

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The corona death toll in

Brazil

rose in March to by far the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic.

Within a month, the authorities reported 66,573 corona deaths, according to data from the Ministry of Health on Wednesday (local time).

That was more than twice as many as last July, the worst month to date with almost 33,000 deaths.

Since the beginning of the year, the number of people who die from or with a corona infection in the South American country has quadrupled on average.

On Wednesday, the authorities reported 3,869 deaths in 24 hours, also a new high.

According to health experts, this development is also due to the increasing spread of a Brazilian variant of the coronavirus, which is considered more contagious than the previous one.

In total, the authorities in Brazil have reported 321,000 corona deaths so far.

In

India

, the number of new infections is falling again after three days with record levels of over 60,000 cases.

The Ministry of Health reported

56,211

proven

cases of

infection within 24 hours

on Tuesday

.

In Maharashtra alone, the country's richest state, there are more than 31,000.

The number of deaths related to the coronavirus increases by

271

to

162,114

.

For a long time India was the country with the second highest values ​​after the USA.

Brazil now has more infections and deaths than India.

With more than

549,000

deaths and

30.3 million

infections, the

United States is the

country most severely affected by the pandemic in absolute terms. In the meantime, however, more than

93 million

people have been vaccinated at least once. More than 48 percent of those over 65 already have full vaccination protection. The USA has a total of almost 330 million inhabitants.