The Robert Koch Institute put the nationwide seven-day incidence on Sunday morning at 514.0.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week was 544.0, a week ago 666.4 and a month ago 1181.2.
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 overworked 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.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 8,488 new corona infections (previous week: 11,718) and 10 deaths (previous week: 0) to the RKI within one day.
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, since more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.