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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The number of new infections with the coronavirus in Rhineland-Palatinate has decreased slightly this week.

On the past seven days, an average of 627 new cases were reported every day, in the week before the daily average was still 711. Also this week slightly fewer people died from or with Covid-19 than in the previous week - here went the mean value decreased from 42.1 on the day to 32.6.

On Friday, the health authorities registered 762 new corona infections (as of 2:10 p.m.), as the state investigation office announced.

According to this, 14,861 people in the country are currently infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

The number of patients who died with or from Covid-19 rose by 47 to 2,263.

According to the State Investigation Office, 58 Covid 19 patients were brought to the hospital within one day by Friday.

Of 191 Covid 19 patients currently being treated in intensive care units, 92 patients have to be ventilated, according to data from the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) on Friday.

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The so-called seven-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days, was 101.1 on Friday in the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate and thus below the value of the previous week (112.6).

The pandemic spread fastest in Rhineland-Palatinate just before Christmas, with an incidence of 170.4 on December 21.

The highest incidence on Friday was in the Birkenfeld district with 222.4.

This is followed by the Südliche Weinstrasse district (168.3) and the cities of Ludwigshafen (154.4) and Koblenz (143.8).

Three municipalities are below the incidence threshold of 50: the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm (34.3), the district Bernkastel-Wittlich (43.6) and the city of Trier (47.5).

The pandemic in Rhineland-Palatinate began on February 26, 2020 with a positive test in Koblenz.

Since then, 88,587 people have been proven to have been infected in the state.

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State investigation office with current corona numbers

Dashbord DIVI intensive register at county level