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Berlin (dpa) - The number of deaths and new infections with the corona virus remains at a high level.
The German health authorities submitted 19,528 new cases and 731 deaths to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
On Tuesday of the previous week, 14,432 new infections and 500 deaths had been reported - however, there was no data from Saxony at the time, which was subsequently reported.
The highest value with 33,777 reported infections had been given on Friday, but included 3500 late reports.
The previous high in deaths was reached last Wednesday at 952.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) reported to the health authorities within seven days was given by the RKI on Tuesday at 197.6.
This is the highest level since the pandemic began.
Saxony achieved by far the highest value: There the seven-day incidence is 426.8, i.e. more than twice as high as the national average.
Thuringia follows with a value of 299.4 and Bavaria with 215.9.
The lowest value is recorded in Schleswig-Holstein with 93.6.
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The number of deaths had recently tended to go up, which was expected after the steep increase in new infections.
The total number of people who died with or with a documented Sars-CoV-2 infection rose to 27,006 as of Tuesday.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 1,530,180 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of December 22nd, 00.00 a.m.).
It is estimated that around 1,136,700 people have now recovered.
According to the RKI management report from Monday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.98 (previous day: 1.04).
This means that 100 infected people infect 98 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
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RKI management report from Monday