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The health authorities in Germany

reported

27,543 new

corona infections to

the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) within one day

.

The number of new infections reported could include late reports from North Rhine-Westphalia from the previous day.

A large number of reports from the NRW health authorities had not previously been completely transmitted due to technical difficulties.

According to the RKI,

265

new deaths were recorded

across Germany within 24 hours

.

Subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.

On Friday a week ago, the RKI reported 25,831 new corona infections within one day.

In addition, 247 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.

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According to the RKI, the number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants was

164.0

nationwide on Friday morning

.

The day before, the RKI had given this seven-day incidence as 161.1.

According to the RKI, the

seven-day incidence of

the past few days cannot yet be used to estimate whether the rising trend of the past week will continue.

The RKI has counted

3,245,253

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

2,865,000

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

81,158

.

The nationwide

seven-day R-value

was 1.01 according to the RKI situation report from Thursday evening (previous day: 0.94).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 101 more people.

The R-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.

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The number of

free intensive care beds

in Germany fell by 4.5 percent on Wednesday to 2822. This is the lowest value since the beginning of the corona pandemic over a year ago.

The seven-day average of free intensive care beds is 3067.

The number of

seriously ill

with Covid-19 in German

intensive care units

rose above the 5000 mark on Thursday. 5049 such cases are now being treated in clinics nationwide, 62 more than the previous day, as shown in the daily report of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) with data of the Divi intensive register.

The last time the load was so high was in mid-January.

The president of the intensive care medicine association Divi, Gernot Marx, spoke in a statement on Twitter of a further tense situation.

He welcomed the Bundestag's decision on the Corona emergency brake on Wednesday and said he did not hope for any further delay by the Federal Council.

A good 5.6 million Germans have full vaccination protection

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Around

20.8 percent of

the population in Germany have now received at least

one vaccination against the coronavirus

.

This emerges from the vaccination rate monitoring carried out by the RKI on Wednesday (as of April 21, 9.10 a.m.).

The vaccination centers, mobile teams, hospitals and general practitioners have given almost 17.3 million first vaccinations and a good 5.6 million second vaccinations to date.

Accordingly, the rate of fully vaccinated was 6.8 percent.

On Tuesday (April 20), 535,198 further vaccinations were given.

The most vaccinations to date were on April 14, with a total of 770,046 doses.

All federal states except for Baden-Württemberg and Hesse are now above the 20 percent mark in terms of their population share.

Bremen

has the highest rate

at

23.5 percent

, while

Hesse continues

to have

the lowest

with

18.8 percent

.

By April 18, 25.5 million doses of vaccine had been delivered to Germany.

90 percent of them had been vaccinated by April 20th.

Corona in Europe

In

Turkey

, 346 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday evening.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, never before have so many corona deaths been registered from one day to the next.

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The

Netherlands

want to loosen the contact restrictions next week despite persistently high infection rates.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced that the three-month night curfews will be lifted on April 28th.

Restaurants and bars are allowed to host guests in the outdoor areas.

Coronavirus worldwide

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In the

United States

, health officials recorded at least

59,997 new infections

within 24 hours. This gives a Reuters count based on official data. In total, more than 31.86 million people have been proven to be infected with the coronavirus. The number of deaths related to the virus increases by at least 905 to 568,950. The USA has the highest number of infections and deaths in the world.

In

India

, the Ministry of Health recorded

295,041 new infections

- more than ever before within 24 hours. This increases the number of proven cases of infection to over 15.6 million. This is the second highest figure worldwide after the USA with more than 31 million cases. The number of deaths related to the virus will rise to 182,553 by 2023 - again, this is the steepest increase in a day to date.