Lower Saxony is the first federal state to say goodbye to its previous step-by-step plan.

The state government wants to “rewrite” the Corona regulation by August 25, as the head of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery Jörg Mielke (SPD) announced in Hanover on Wednesday.

A new evaluation standard is to be included in it, which will also relate the frequency of reported infections to other parameters - such as the number of corona patients in hospitals.

A suitable formula is still being discussed.

Meanwhile, half of the people in Germany are fully vaccinated against the corona virus, said Mielke.

Far-reaching restrictions can no longer be justified for them: "For their freedoms and the possibilities of being active, incidences and levels that are derived from them play no role at all."

At the Prime Minister's Conference on Tuesday there was no mutual agreement on new values ​​for assessing the situation.

Lower Saxony would have considered this necessary and clearly expressed it in a protocol note on the federal-state decision, said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) after the deliberations.

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.

The seven-day incidence of the coronavirus continues to rise.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) this Wednesday morning, it was 25.1.

The day before the value was 23.5, a week ago it was 18.5.

The health authorities in Germany reported 4996 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

A week ago, the value for Germany was 3571 infections.

14 new deaths

According to the new information, 14 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 25 deaths.

The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with the Sars-CoV-2 virus rose to 91,817.

The RKI has counted 3,799,425 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 3,671,800.

Vaccination rate could actually be higher

According to the RKI, there is a “certain under-certainty” when interpreting vaccination quota data.

Several considerations suggested that the reports in the so-called digital vaccination rate monitoring (DIM) probably underestimate the vaccination rates, according to an RKI report on Tuesday.

Especially among young adults and middle-aged adults, more people could have received a first vaccination than officially recorded.

The DIM feeds on reports from vaccination centers, hospitals, mobile vaccination teams and, in the meantime, company physicians; according to the RKI, data from resident doctors and private doctors are also included. Together they form the basis for the so-called vaccination dashboard. There is also another RKI survey called Covimo, for which vaccination rates are extrapolated based on surveys.

According to the report, the latest Covimo survey from the end of June to mid-July among around 1,000 adults revealed a discrepancy with the DIM.

The quota of those who had been vaccinated at least once turned out to be “a lot higher”, especially in the age group of 18 to 59 year olds: While 79 percent stated in the survey that they were vaccinated, according to the reporting system it was 59 percent.

The authors of the report write that the actual vaccination rate is likely to be between the values ​​of both sources.

"In terms of the vaccination rates for fully vaccinated people, however, there was no significant difference," the report says.

A certain amount of underreporting in such monitoring systems is also to be expected by experts.

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