The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has reported a significant increase in the nationwide seven-day incidence and thus a new high.

The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Tuesday morning as 894.3.

For comparison: the day before the value was 840.3.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 553.2 (previous month: 242.9).

The health authorities in Germany reported 126,955 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m.

A week ago there were 74,405 infections.

Experts expect more and more cases that cannot be recorded, partly because test capacities and health authorities are increasingly at their limit.

According to the new information, 214 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 193 deaths.

The RKI has counted 8,871,795 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.

The RKI gave the number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days as 3.87 on Monday (Friday: 3.77).

In five out of 16 federal states, the seven-day incidence is above 1000 – led by Berlin with 1593.5.

Thuringia (310.8) and Saxony (377.3) are currently the lowest.

number of recovered

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Tuesday as 7,331,200.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 116,960.

After the federal and state consultations, the laboratory association ALM called on politicians to talk about expanding test capacities. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and the prime ministers of the federal states agreed on Monday that "every effort should be made" to increase the PCR test capacities in the state. The chairman of the association of accredited laboratories in medicine (ALM), Michael Müller, told the German Press Agency that you first have to talk about what that means in concrete terms. "We would need to know by how much the capacity should be increased and in what period of time." Planning is important. It's about devices, about employees and also about the question of what happens when the higher capacity is built up and then, in case of doubt, not needed at all.

Müller described the planned prioritization of PCR tests as "right, important and necessary" in view of the current load on the laboratories.

"We're working incredibly hard at the moment," he said.

Most recently, there were around two million tests per week.

The association wants to present new figures for utilization this Tuesday.

Chancellor Scholz said on Monday after the prime ministers' conference that they would remain "on course".

The round had not decided to tighten or relax.

Criticism came from the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).

It "was unsatisfactory because we only postponed it again," he said on Monday evening in the ARD "Tagesthemen".