The seven-day incidence of new corona infections in Germany has fallen for the second day in a row.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), it was 1459.8 nationwide on Monday morning.
On Sunday it was 1466.5, on Monday last week it was 1426.0.
The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
It is difficult to judge whether this really means a turnaround in the infection process in Germany.
It could also be that the decline in incidence does not reflect the actual occurrence of infection, but is the result of an overloaded reporting and testing system.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours on Monday morning was 76,465 – after 125,160 on Sunday and 95,267 on Monday last week.
As the RKI further announced, 42 other deaths related to the corona virus were also recorded on Monday.
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 12,421,126 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 119,977.
The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 8,838,800.
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 on Friday was 6.46 nationwide.