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In the corona pandemic, an important indicator for North Rhine-Westphalia fell slightly.
The so-called seven-day incidence for the state is now 126.8, as the Robert Koch Institute announced on Thursday morning, December 31.
This means that around 127 people per 100,000 inhabitants were infected with the new type of coronavirus in one week.
In the previous days the value was higher, at the beginning of the week it was 147.3.
However, the informative value of the pandemic data is currently weakened because fewer tests were made and processed at Christmas - results of tests carried out after the holidays may not have been included in the statistics.
In addition, the decreased incidence value is still a long way from the level that is aimed for - namely a value below 50.
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The number of newly infected people reported within 24 hours was given on Thursday morning for NRW as 5748.
There were also 101 corona-related deaths, bringing the number of deaths in North Rhine-Westphalia to 6552.