The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has fallen again.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the value was 1253.3 on Saturday morning.
On Friday it was 1259.5, on Saturday a week ago it was 1350.4.
The value 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 recorded within 24 hours on Saturday morning was 175,833, after 210,743 the day before and 189,105 a week ago.
The total number of registered cases of infection in Germany since the beginning of the corona pandemic has thus increased to 14,574,845.
In addition, according to the RKI, 250 new deaths related to the corona virus were recorded within 24 hours.
The total number of recorded corona deaths in Germany rose to 122,621.
The RKI put the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 10,758,500 since the beginning of the pandemic.
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 current RKI information, the hospitalization incidence on Friday was 6.28 nationwide.
A week earlier it had been 6.24.