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Berlin (dpa) - A new version of the federal government's official Corona warning app is available for download.
The application now contains an information area with the most important key figures on the current infection rate in Germany.
According to the figures published there, almost 230,000 people who have tested positive for the coronavirus themselves have used the app to warn their fellow human beings of possible dangerous encounters.
The daily value here is almost 1500.
In the app, users could also access the latest figures on new infections, the seven-day incidence and the seven-day R-value.
Furthermore, the developers have improved the user-friendliness and fixed some minor bugs.
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The seven-day incidence shows the number of new infections within the past seven days and is given per 100,000 inhabitants.
It was determined by the federal and state governments with a view to counties and urban districts as decisive for new restrictions in the corona pandemic.
The R value, which is also called the number of reproductions, indicates how many people an infected person infects.
If this number is below one, it indicates that the epidemic is subsiding.
Because then one infected person is on average less infected than one other person.
The R value, which is calculated by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), allows conclusions to be drawn about the development of the epidemic.
The federal government's corona warning app has been downloaded more than 25 million times to date.
Experts estimate that it is actively used by around 23 million people.
The effectiveness of the app increases the more people actually use the application.
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