The seven-day incidence has been rising for three and a half weeks.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Saturday morning, it was 16.9 - the previous day the value was 16.5, on the Saturday of the previous week it was 13.6.
The health authorities in Germany reported 2400 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.
This is evident from the figures from Saturday morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:10 a.m.
A week ago the value for Germany was 1919 infections.
The increase is 25 percent.
Hamburg has the highest incidence with 30.5 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within the past seven days.
It is followed by Berlin with 26.8 and Schleswig-Holstein with 23.7.
The lowest incidences are in Thuringia (4.8), Saxony-Anhalt (5.3) and Saxony (6.3).
21 more deaths
The incidence has so far been the basis for many corona restrictions in the pandemic, for example as part of the federal emergency brake that expired at the end of June.
In the future, other values such as hospital admissions are to be taken more into account.
According to the new information, 21 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
A week ago there were 28 deaths.
The RKI has counted 3,769,165 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 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 3,653,300.
The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 91,658.