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The health authorities in Germany

reported

21,953 new

corona infections to

the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) within one day

.

For comparison: on Thursday a week ago the value was 24,736.

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

129.1

nationwide on Thursday morning

(previous day: 132.8; previous week: 154.9).

According to the RKI,

250

new deaths were recorded

across Germany within 24 hours

.

Exactly a week ago there were 264 dead.

The RKI has counted

3,473,503

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

3,107,300

.

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

84,126

.

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According to the RKI management 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.

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.

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In Germany,

30.6 percent

of people have received at least one corona vaccination.

This comes from the vaccination rate monitoring of the RKI (status: May 6th, 9.45 a.m.).

So far, 8.6 percent of the population has received full vaccination protection.

On Wednesday, around 1.1 million (1,092,765) vaccinations were reported.

As Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced on Twitter, this was the second day after the start of the vaccination campaign in Germany when the number of vaccine doses administered was seven digits.

The highest daily value since the start of the vaccination campaign was reached on Wednesday last week with 1,116,608 vaccinations.

All in all, all vaccination centers have administered just under 32.6 million doses so far, of which just under 25.5 million for first vaccinations and a good 7.1 million for second vaccinations.

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Coronavirus in Europe

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In

Switzerland

, the reported corona infections are falling despite far-reaching easing of the corona measures.

In the week from April 26 to May 2, the number of reported infections decreased by around 18 percent, as the Federal Office of Public Health reported on Thursday.

The

incidence

per 100,000 inhabitants fell from

168.8 to 137.8

infections, but at the same time the number of deaths rose from 50 to 59.

The office presents figures on the newly reported infections on a daily basis, but only calculates the 14-day incidence on a daily basis.

The seven-day incidence is calculated once a week.

On Thursday, a total of 1687 new infections were reported within 24 hours, compared with 2066 a week ago.

At the beginning of March, shops, theaters, cinemas, zoos, fitness centers and leisure facilities were reopened in Switzerland, and the restaurant terraces were also opened in mid-April.

Hygiene concepts apply everywhere, with rules such as keeping your distance, wearing a mask and maximum limits for visitors.

Since the pandemic began,

more than

a million people

in

Sweden

have been

shown to have contracted the coronavirus.

The Scandinavian EU country with its much-noticed special route had 1,002,121 confirmed corona cases on Thursday afternoon, which corresponded to an increase of around 6500 new infections compared to the previous day.

In terms of population, the country with ten million inhabitants has so far recorded more than twice as many infections per 100,000 inhabitants as Germany.

The current incidence is also more than double the value in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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 found to be infected with the coronavirus.

The number of deaths increased by 750.