Now it should be clear what life with the corona virus should look like in Germany from March 20th.

The previously applicable rules for protection against the virus should then largely fall, but a hotspot regulation should give the countries the opportunity to intervene.

According to his own statements, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) agreed on this with Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).

"I think we found a very good compromise," said Buschmann on Wednesday in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".

This is based on two pillars: On the one hand, there will be “virtually no more restrictions” in the everyday lives of citizens.

Exceptions are tests where there are many vulnerable people and masks, for example in public transport.

The second pillar is a hotspot regulation: additional measures could be taken in areas with difficult outbreaks, such as when the health system is overloaded or dangerous new virus variants.

"I think that's the ideal compromise, on the one hand to get as much normality as possible for the citizens and on the other hand to be able to act if there is actually a concrete dangerous situation," said Buschmann.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported an increase in the nationwide seven-day incidence on Wednesday for the seventh day in a row.

The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Wednesday morning as 1319.0.

For comparison: the day before the value was 1293.6.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1171.9 (previous month: 1450.8).

The health authorities in Germany reported 215,854 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 186,406 infections.

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

One reason is the limited capacity of health authorities, for example, and contacts are often only tracked to a limited extent.

According to the new information, 314 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 301 deaths.

The RKI has counted 16,242,070 detected 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-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days as 6.06 on Monday (Sunday with 6.24).

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

More recent figures were not initially available.

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Wednesday as 12,753,700.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 124,764.