The health authorities in Germany reported 1,455 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.

That comes from the figures from Wednesday morning.

For comparison: a week ago the value was 3254 infections.

According to the information, 137 new deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 107 deaths.

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 is now given as 90,074.

The RKI gave the seven-day incidence nationwide as 13.2 (previous day: 15.5; previous week: 20.8).

The institute has counted 3,717,625 detected infections with the Sars-CoV-2 virus 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 3,590,900.

The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.72 according to the RKI situation report from Tuesday afternoon (previous day: 0.77). This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 72 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.

Meanwhile, the federal and state health ministers are discussing the future of the regional vaccination centers and the corona consequences for children and adolescents this Wednesday.

The future of the vaccination centers is open, several countries want to continue the facilities longer than previously planned, as a survey by the German press agency showed.

Steps against the long-term consequences of Covid diseases are also planned, as the chairman of the conference of health ministers and Bavarian head of department Klaus Holetschek (CSU) said in advance in Munich.

How long will the vaccination centers be used?

For example, Lower Saxony wants to operate the vaccination centers beyond the previously targeted closure at the end of September in order to ensure rapid vaccination progress.

It looks similar in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria.

The federal government must ensure the financing by the end of the year, demanded Bavaria's head of department Holetschek.

A spokeswoman for the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Social Affairs said the funding of the vaccination centers would be available until the end of September.

"We are currently assuming that they will continue to work through the summer." In Bremen, the health administration said: "We are currently still planning how the vaccination centers will continue." In Hamburg, the plans depend on the further vaccination campaign .

In Brandenburg, nine out of eleven centers are to be retained.

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) said after the Prime Minister's Conference last week that the health ministers should discuss the extent to which the vaccination centers of the federal states should be preserved to a certain extent - also with a view to possible booster vaccinations in autumn.

Holetschek said: "I believe that we will continue to need the vaccination centers until the end of the year and that the federal government will have to continue to finance them." Conceptual changes, for example towards more mobile teams, are conceivable.

Countries also stressed that vaccination centers were an interim solution.

The statutory health insurance physicians pointed out that the majority of the vaccinations had already been administered in the practices.

The doctors in private practice have injected over 20.4 million vaccine doses in the practices since the start of the vaccination campaign at the beginning of April 2021, according to the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (Zi).

The Corona booster vaccinations could easily be done in the doctor's office.

Everyday offers for stressed children and adolescents

The Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists called for more treatment options as well as more everyday offers for stressed children and adolescents.

The need for treatment has increased as a result of Corona.

Now more limited practice seats for psychotherapeutic treatment would have to be approved in the short term.

For stressed adolescents, it should now also be a matter of strengthening their mental health - for example through sports, leisure and cultural activities.

Education and family counseling centers should be strengthened, and cooperation between youth welfare and therapists intensified.

Verdi organizes protests

Protests organized by the Verdi union are to take place at noon in front of the health ministries of the state capitals.

Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) and Holetschek are expected at Max-Joseph-Platz in Munich.

The protests are directed against the tense work situation of many employees.

In a Verdi survey in clinics and care facilities, 52 percent of those questioned stated that they could only partially or even not be able to complete their tasks within a working day.

78 percent of those questioned could not imagine working with the current staffing levels in their area until they retire.

In the hospital sector it is as much as 83 percent.

The results were available to the German Press Agency in Berlin.

Over a year after the start of the pandemic, 18 percent of employees still say that they only have enough corona protective equipment available partially, not at all or at all.

73 percent of those questioned in care for the elderly stated that they did not have enough time to talk to those in need of care.

48 percent of those surveyed in the service area - such as cleaning - state that they do not get along well with their salary.

Verdi said it interviewed 12,000 employees in clinics, elderly care and service.