The seven-day incidence of new corona infections in Germany has reached another high.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it was 1176.8 nationwide on Monday morning.
On Sunday it was 1156.8, on Monday last week it was 840.3.
The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours on Monday morning was 78,318 - around 24 percent more than a week ago.
As the RKI further announced, 61 other deaths in connection with the corona virus were also recorded on Monday.
There are still large regional differences in the seven-day incidence.
In Berlin, the incidence is 1,821.0 (in Berlin Tempelhof-Schoeneberg at 2,911.8).
In Saxony (678.5) and Thuringia (468.6) the incidence values are much lower.
number of recovered
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 9,815,533 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 117,786.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 7,622,400.
In November, the federal and state governments had defined the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening or relaxing the corona measures.
This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are hospitalized within seven days because of a corona infection.
According to the latest RKI report, the hospitalization incidence nationwide on Friday was 4.72.