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In Germany, more people were vaccinated against the corona virus on Wednesday than ever before.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Friday (as of 9:35 a.m.),
1,353,453 vaccine syringes
were used on that day,
and 408,260
on Ascension Day. As Federal Health
Minister
Jens Spahn (CDU) announced on Twitter, they were on vaccinated almost 2 percent of the German population on both days.
This means that
35.9 percent (29.8 million)
of people in Germany have
been vaccinated
at least
once
and 10.6 percent (8.8 million) are fully protected.
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According to data from the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI), the
nationwide seven-day incidence fell
below the threshold of 100 for the first time since March 20. According to the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:56 a.m., the value on Friday was
96.5
(March 20: 99.9). The day before, the RKI had given the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week as
103.6
, on Friday a week
ago as 125.7
. The nationwide incidence peaked during the third wave on April 26 at 169.3. The highest incidence value to date was 197.6 on December 22nd last year.
The health authorities in Germany reported
11,336
new corona infections to
the RKI within one day
.
For comparison: a week ago the value was
18,485
new infections.
According to the information,
190
new deaths were recorded across
Germany within 24 hours
.
A week ago there were 284 dead.
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The RKI has counted
3,577,040
detected infections with Sars-CoV-2
since the beginning of the pandemic
.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, however, since many infections are not recognized.
The RKI
stated the
number of
those who had recovered
at
3,259,000
.
The number of people who died with or with a proven Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to
85,848
.
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In more than half of the districts and cities in Germany, the 7-day incidence is now below
100
. According to data from the RKI, this last applied to
214 of 412
districts and urban districts recorded (data status May 12). Half of the federal states are now also below the politically relevant value of 100. According to the RKI data from Thursday, Schleswig-Holstein is looking particularly good with 46 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week. Saarland and Bavaria are only just over 100 (both 101). Saxony (140) and Thuringia (163) are still at the bottom.
According to the RKI situation report on Thursday evening, the
nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
0.87
(previous day: 0.82).
This means that 100 infected people infect a further 87 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.
More than every third person in Germany has been vaccinated against the coronavirus at least once.
As the vaccination rate monitoring carried out by the RKI on Wednesday shows (as of 4.15 p.m.),
34.3
percent of people have received at least one vaccination.
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According to the RKI, all agencies have so far administered a total of around 36.8 million vaccinations.
Of these, almost 29 million were given for first vaccinations and another 8.3 million for second vaccinations.
Accordingly, the rate of fully vaccinated rose to 10 percent.
On Tuesday, 1,047,865 vaccine syringes were reportedly given.
On two other days in the past few weeks, the number of vaccine doses reported to the RKI had been more than one million within one day.
The vaccination rate varies depending on the federal state.
The Saarland has the highest quota of at least first vaccinated persons at 38.7 percent.
At 29.8 percent, Saxony is slightly behind the other federal states.
Coronavirus worldwide
In
India
, the Ministry of Health recorded more than 4,000 corona deaths for the second day in a row. The number of new infections remained below the threshold of 400,000 on Thursday for the fourth day in a row. But since the virus is spreading rapidly in rural areas, where significantly less testing is carried out than in cities, numerous cases could go undetected. Experts are unsure when the peak of the spread will be reached. At the same time, concerns are growing about a particularly contagious variant that could spread quickly - even beyond India.
362,727 new infections were detected within 24 hours, the total number rose to 23.7 million.
Worldwide, India, where around 1.35 billion people live, ranks second behind the USA.
The number of deaths related to the virus rose by 4,120 to 258,317.
In
Russia
, the health authorities reported 8,380 new infections within 24 hours on Thursday.
In total, more than 4.9 million people have been shown to have contracted the virus.
392 other people died in connection with the virus, a total of 114,723.
However, the national statistical office, which itself collects data, has already recorded around 250,000 deaths from April 2020 to March 2021.
According to the authorities, the Bureau of Statistics is more comprehensive because it also includes cases from autopsy reports that are not available for the daily record of deaths.
In addition, the first case of an Indian virus variant became known, reports the newspaper "Kommersant".
16 cases were found in Ulyanovsk in a group of Indian students.
Thailand
has registered its highest increase in corona infections within a day to date - more than half of the cases were reported from two prisons in Bangkok.
According to the Corona crisis center, the country recorded a high of more than 4,800 new infections on Thursday, of which more than 2,800 cases were in the prisons in the capital.
Numerous prominent democracy activists are imprisoned there.
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The first case became known when an activist announced that she had tested positive for the virus five days after she was released on bail. A prison officer Weerakit Harnpariphan confirmed that another activist tested positive for corona in a Bangkok prison.
The small Pacific island of
Nauru says
it was the first country in the world to give all adults a dose of vaccine against the coronavirus. "The Corona Task Force is delighted with this world record and thanks all residents for their contribution to keeping Nauru free from Corona," the government said on Wednesday. Over the course of a month,
7392
people reportedly received their first AstraZeneca vaccination. This even corresponds to 108 percent of their own citizens - foreigners on site were also vaccinated.
All residents should receive their second dose of vaccine in mid-July. Nauru is one of the few countries in the world that has not yet registered any cases of the coronavirus. The country received its vaccine doses as part of the international Covax program, which aims to ensure fair vaccine distribution around the world.