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Berlin (dpa) - The number of new infections with the corona virus has recently fallen significantly in Germany.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the so-called 7-day incidence at 119.0 - the lowest value since November 1.
The 7-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections reported to the health authorities per 100,000 inhabitants and week, had fallen continuously over the past ten days.
It had reached its previous high just before Christmas (December 22nd) with 197.6.
However, the differences between the federal states are large: Thuringia has the highest incidences with 225.0 and Brandenburg with 203.3.
Bremen has the lowest value with 76.6.
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The German health authorities also reported 20,398 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.
In addition, 1013 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 25,164 new infections and 1244 new deaths - the previous high - within 24 hours.
Among the new infections registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reported on December 18, at 33,777 - but this included 3500 late reports.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 2,088,400 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher since many infections are not recognized.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 49,783.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 1,762,200.
The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.87 according to the RKI situation report from Wednesday evening (previous day: also 0.87).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 87 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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