The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has reported a minimal increase in the nationwide seven-day incidence after a decline of several days.

The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Monday morning as 1346.8.

For comparison: the day before the value was 1346.3.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1459.8 (previous month: 706.3).

Experts assume a high number of cases that are not recorded in the RKI data.

Test capacities and health authorities are therefore at the limit in many places, and contacts are only tracked to a limited extent.

In addition, there is likely to be a larger number of people who no longer have their infection confirmed by a PCR test - the infection is therefore not included in the official statistics.

According to the new information, 22 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 42 deaths.

The RKI has counted 13,636,993 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 number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 6.24 according to the RKI on Friday (Thursday: 5.97).

Among them are many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.

The value is not reported on weekends.

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Monday as 9,829,300.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 121,297.