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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The corona lockdown in Baden-Württemberg is working: the number of new infections within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants is below 100 for the first time since October 29, 2020, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health confirmed to the German press on Wednesday evening Agency in Stuttgart.

For comparison: just before Christmas, the so-called 7-day incidence in the southwest was over 200.

The incidence value is currently 98.4, announced the State Health Office on Wednesday (as of 4 p.m.).

But the goal of politics is to reduce the number of new infections to 50 per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days - only then will the health authorities be able to follow the contact persons in full.

This was successful in one of 44 urban and rural districts: In the Tübingen district, the incidence value was 49.4.

The number of new corona infections has been leveling off across the country for about two weeks.

Nevertheless, the federal and state governments extended the lockdown to February 14th on Tuesday out of concern about new virus variants.

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The number of registered corona infections in Baden-Württemberg rose by 2351 cases compared to the report by the State Health Office on Tuesday.

In addition, 95 more deaths related to the coronavirus have been reported.

This means that a total of 279 450 infections and 6418 deaths among infected people have been registered in the southwest since the beginning of the pandemic.

238 004 people are considered recovered.

The incidence value in 25 urban and rural districts in the southwest is between 50 and 100 - from 50, a municipality is considered a risk area.

18 districts are between 100 and 200. The value is highest in the urban district of Pforzheim at 185.0.

According to data from the Divi intensive care register, 481 Covid 19 patients in the southwest are currently in intensive care, the authority further announced.

294 of them would be artificially ventilated.

Around 88 percent of the 2,451 operable intensive care beds are occupied.

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In Baden-Württemberg, 128 128 people have received a first dose of the corona vaccination so far, 7793 people have been immunized with a second vaccination.

That is 5796 first vaccinations and 3107 second vaccinations more than the day before.

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