The nationwide seven-day incidence has again increased significantly.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Saturday morning as 183.7.

For comparison: the previous day the value was 169.95, a week ago it was 145.1 (previous month: 62.3).

The health authorities in Germany reported 34,002 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 03:38 a.m.

The day before, the number of new infections had reached 37,120, a record since the beginning of the pandemic.

A week ago, the value was 21,543 infections.

According to the new information, 142 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 90 deaths.

The RKI has counted 4,743,490 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 Friday at 3.91 (Thursday: 3.73).

With the indicator it must be taken into account that hospital admissions are sometimes reported with delay.

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 4,355,300.

The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 96,488.

Southeast Germany was particularly hard hit

The situation is particularly dramatic in some districts of Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria.

The districts of Rottal-Inn, Sonneberg, Mühldorf am Inn, Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and Traunstein each have incidence values ​​of over 700 patients per 100,000 inhabitants.

In contrast, some areas on the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony and in Schleswig-Holstein have relatively low numbers of infections.