The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence of the corona virus as 566.8 this Thursday morning.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 591.8, a week ago 826.0, a month ago 1394.0.
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI - due to overburdened health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done.
Only these count in the statistics.
In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
Just under 100,000 new infections
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 96,167 new corona infections and 183 deaths to the RKI.
A week ago it was 130,104 and 246.
Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 25,130,137 infections with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
Joachim Gauck has become infected
Joachim Gauck's office confirmed on Wednesday that the 82-year-old former Federal President had tested positive for the corona virus.
He has symptoms of a cold but is on the mend.
His appointments for the next few days have been cancelled.
Gauck had tested positive on Monday.
The Protestant theologian and former GDR opposition figure was Federal President from 2012 to 2017.