The nationwide seven-day incidence has increased significantly compared to the previous day.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week on Tuesday morning as 909.1.

The previous day the value was 790.8.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 669.9 (previous month: 1758.4).

The health authorities in Germany reported 136,798 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 22,483 registered infections.

When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual states do not report data every day of the week, and at weekends, for example, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony do not, or only partially, report data.

This in turn leads to late registrations on the following days.

A comparison of daily values ​​is therefore becoming increasingly difficult.

Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI - due to overworked health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done.

Only these count in the statistics.

According to the new information, 304 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were seven deaths.

The RKI has counted 24,337,394 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 number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was given by the RKI on Monday at 5.04 (Friday 4.52).

Here, too, there are days with incomplete reports.

The RKI does not indicate a hospitalization rate at the weekend.

The value also includes many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.

The RKI gave the number of recovered people on Tuesday as 21,665,200.

The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 134,489.