The seven-day incidence in Germany rose for the seventh day in a row.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Wednesday morning at 80.4.
For comparison: the previous day the value was 75.1, a week ago it was 65.4.
The health authorities in Germany reported 17,015 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.
This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 4:52 a.m.
A week ago the value was 11,903 infections.
According to the new information, 92 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
A week ago there were also 92 deaths.
The RKI has counted 4,401,631 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 number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days - the most important parameter for a possible tightening of the corona restrictions - was given by the RKI on Tuesday as 2.13 (Monday 1.92).
A nationwide threshold value from when the situation can be viewed critically is not provided for the incidence of hospitalization, among other things because of large regional differences.
The previous high was around 15.5 around Christmas time.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 4,174,400.
The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 94,808.
Shared echo at the end of the Corona emergency
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn continues to meet with a mixed response with his push to end the corona emergency in Germany.
While local authorities approved the demand, the Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services responded with protest.
Cautious reactions and cautionary voices are coming from the federal states.
The epidemic situation is the basis for ordinances and central corona measures in Germany. It was first established by the Bundestag in March 2020 and later extended several times by Parliament. Spahn had spoken out on Monday in consultations with the health ministers of the federal states that there would be no renewed extension. This would mean that the nationwide Corona emergency would expire on November 25th.
The German Association of Towns and Municipalities supports the initiative. "I think it is wrong to continue the state of emergency after almost two years of pandemic," said association chief executive Gerd Landsberg of the newspaper Rheinische Post. “How long do we want to continue this with a vaccination rate of around 80 percent?” He asked. That doesn't mean that Corona is completely over. But it would be "an important signal to people, society and the economy".
The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services (bpa) disagreed.
"We strongly advise against it," said bpa President Bernd Meurer to the editorial network in Germany.
In some districts, the incidences among those over 80 were again between 100 and 250. Meurer warned: "In view of this situation, we are calling for an extension of the relevant regulations to protect this particularly vulnerable population group - we consider everything else to be irresponsible."
"Still difficult months ahead of us"
The chairman of the Federal Association of Municipal Elderly and Disabled Facilities (BKSB), Alexander Schraml, spoke out in the RND for a nationwide uniform legal basis, according to which home residents "may only be admitted with vaccination and visitors may only be admitted with vaccination".
Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil warned against a hasty end of all corona measures.
"What must not happen with a view to autumn and winter is a replacement without replacement of the protective rules," said the SPD politician of the German press agency.
"We still have difficult months ahead of us."
Thuringia's Minister of Health Heike Werner (Linke) told the RND that Spahn had "rightly pointed out that a formal end to the epidemic situation should not be equated with an end to the pandemic".
In view of the "sharply increasing numbers of infections" in Thuringia, she called for the continuation of measures, "at best nationwide".
The Rhineland-Palatinate Health Minister Clemens Hoch (SPD) also warned in the RND: "Nobody wants to lift all measures from November 25th, that after the end of the epidemic situation of national scope in Germany there is a patchwork of dealing with the pandemic." but won't be realistic, Spahn knows that too.
He would like the federal government to have an “orderly, uniform transitional regulation”.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in North Rhine-Westphalia told the RND that "in any case a nationwide uniform solution" was necessary in order to enable further targeted measures to be taken by the federal states.