The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has risen to more than 200.
As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced this Monday morning, citing data from the health authorities, the value increased to 201.1.
The day before it was 191.5, a week ago it was 154.8.
The highest in the entire pandemic to date was in the second wave on December 22, 2020 at 197.6.
The value indicates the number of new infections with the coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
According to the latest information, 15,513 new coronavirus infections and 33 new virus-related deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
The total number of registered cases of infection in Germany since the start of the pandemic rose to 4,782,546, the total number of recorded deaths in connection with a corona infection to 96,558.
The district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains has the highest incidence with 924.3 - this means that in the past seven days almost one percent of the population there was newly infected with the Sars-Cov-2 virus.
People who have not been vaccinated can expect to be infected
According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, almost all non-vaccinated people will be infected with Corona in autumn and winter.
"We will see that in the next few months everyone who is not vaccinated will most likely become infected," Gassen told the broadcaster Bild TV on Sunday evening.
Measures other than vaccination would not protect against the coronavirus.
"It is a deceptive security when people think that because they are not going to the carnival or are still wearing a mask in the subway, they are protected from being infected with corona," said Gassen.
"We will only have peace in the sense of an epidemic situation when the majority of the population has actually been vaccinated or recovered," said the KBV boss.
Gassen stated that the rate of non-vaccinated people was 30 percent.
Teachers' Association advocates compulsory masks
In view of the increasing number of infections, the German Teachers' Association warns of a loss of control over the pandemic in schools.
"There are frightening incidences in the group of children and adolescents," said association president Heinz-Peter Meidinger to the editorial network Germany.
"The large number of corona outbreaks in schools must cause us great concern." The risk of losing control is immense.
Meidinger pleaded for continuing to adhere to the mask requirement: "I consider it highly questionable if federal states, contrary to the recommendation of the Robert Koch Institute, say goodbye to the requirement of wearing masks in schools, although the infections in school children are going through the roof." Studies have shown, that the mask requirement makes schools safer.
Those responsible in the countries should not put their own political wishes above scientific expertise, warned the association president.