The number of corona outbreaks in old people's and nursing homes has recently increased significantly again.
Outbreaks with at least one new case were reported to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in the past week from 235 of these institutions, as can be seen from the weekly report on Thursday evening.
In the previous week there were 192.
The 80-year-olds continue to be most affected by severe disease progression.
In this age group, around 25 per 100,000 inhabitants came to the hospital last week with a severe respiratory infection and Covid-19.
Across all age groups, this value was 3.7 – that corresponds to around 3100 new hospital admissions per week.
Many doctor visits for respiratory diseases
According to the RKI, the infection pressure in the general population and the associated burden on the health system remained high.
"Even if the number of cases remains the same, further increases in serious illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths are to be expected," writes the institute.
For the past calendar week, the authority calculated a number of 800,000 to 1.3 million Sars-CoV-2 infected people with symptoms of an acute respiratory disease.
The number of doctor visits due to acute respiratory diseases is still significantly higher than usual for the time of year.
1.2 million consultations were recorded for the past week, a good quarter of them due to a Sars-CoV-2 infection.
The RKI still advises avoiding contacts if symptoms of a respiratory disease occur, such as a runny nose, sore throat or cough, regardless of vaccination status and quick test result.