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The health authorities in Germany

reported

18,034 new

corona infections to

the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) within one day

.

For comparison: on Wednesday a week ago, the value was 22,231.

According to the RKI, the

number of

new infections

reported within seven days

per 100,000 inhabitants

was

132.8

nationwide on Wednesday morning

(previous day: 141.4; previous week: 160.6)

According to the RKI,

285

new deaths were recorded

across Germany within 24 hours

.

Exactly a week ago there were 312 dead.

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In three federal states -

Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein

- the 7-day incidence is now below 100. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Berlin are close to reaching this mark.

In the

intensive care units

,

too

, where positive developments only become noticeable after a few delays, the situation seems to be at least stabilizing.

On Wednesday the number of patients treated was

4838

cases (previous day 4955), here too the curve has been tending downwards since the end of April.

The RKI has counted

3,451,550

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

3,084,700

.

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

83,876

.

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According to the RKI situation report on Wednesday evening, the

nationwide

seven-day R-value

was

0.83

(previous day: 0.82).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 83 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.

813,290

vaccine doses were

administered

in Germany on Tuesday

.

The highest daily value since the start of the vaccination campaign was reached last Wednesday with more than a million vaccinations.

All in all, all vaccination centers have given a little more than 31.4 million doses so far, of which around 24.5 million for first vaccinations and almost seven million for second vaccinations.

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Coronavirus worldwide

The

United States

recorded

43,626 new infections

.

That comes from the data of the disease authority CDC from Wednesday.

In total, more than 32 million US citizens have been infected with the coronavirus.

The number of deaths increased by 750.