The seven-day incidence has risen again.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Friday morning, it was 70.3.

The previous day the value was 66.0, a week ago it was 48.8.

The health authorities in Germany reported 12,029 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:00 a.m.

A week ago, the value for Germany was 9280 infections.

According to the new information, 14 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 13 deaths. The RKI has counted 3,913,828 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. 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 will also be given greater consideration.

According to the RKI on Friday, 362 new hospitalizations with corona were reported on Thursday, the seven-day incidence of hospitalized cases was 1.65 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

There is also an upward trend here.

On Thursday there were 869 Covid-19 cases in intensive care, 33 more than on Wednesday.

The proportion of corona cases in intensive care units was 3.9 percent.

On Friday, the number of Covid patients in intensive care units rose again by 54 cases to a total of 923, according to the DIVI intensive care register. 445 of these patients are invasively ventilated.

The median age of the hospitalized cases has fallen significantly, as stated in the RKI's weekly report.

Whereas at the beginning of the year the average number of hospitalized cases was 77 years old, it has been 46 to 48 years since the beginning of August.

Study sees a lot of long-term damage

Even one year after their illness, according to a study, around half of the patients admitted to hospital because of a corona infection still suffer from long-term effects.

The authors of the Chinese study, which appeared in the journal "The Lancet" on Friday, therefore called for better consideration of the long-term effects of the disease.

One in three patients is still short of breath even after a year.

In patients who were in an intensive care unit with a severe course of the disease, the proportion of people with long-term effects is even higher, according to the study.

The researchers used the medical records of nearly 1,300 patients treated at a hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan between January and May 2020, where the virus was first discovered.

For the study, data were collected six and twelve months after the end of treatment.

According to this, the proportion of patients with at least one remaining symptom or a secondary illness was 68 percent after six months and 49 percent after one year.

The proportion of patients suffering from anxiety and depression rose slightly from 23 to 26 percent.

Despite the long-term effects, the researchers found that a large majority of 88 percent had returned to work a year after becoming ill.

Nevertheless, health systems would have to be prepared to offer long-term support to Covid-19 patients.