The nationwide seven-day incidence has continued to rise.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Tuesday morning as 1733.4.

For comparison: the day before the value was 1714.2.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1585.4 (previous month: 1306.8).

The health authorities in Germany reported 222,080 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 198,888 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.

Berlin is currently the only federal state with an incidence below 1000. A particularly large number of infections are recorded in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where the incidence is 2459.6.

Citizen tests remain free for the time being

According to the new information, 264 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 283 deaths.

The RKI has counted 18,994,411 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 last gave the number of corona-infected patients per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days on Monday at 7.36 (Sunday: 7.62).

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

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Tuesday as 14,904,100.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 127,193.

As was already leaked at the weekend, the free citizen tests are to continue to be paid for the time being, although the Corona test obligations have been drastically restricted by the traffic light coalition.

"A corresponding regulation is currently being prepared," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health when asked by Reuters.

The regulation should apply until the end of May.