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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - In Saxony-Anhalt, the corona situation is slowly easing, but at a comparatively high level.
In the past seven days, 173 out of 100,000 people from Saxony-Anhalt were verifiably infected with the corona virus, as the Ministry of Social Affairs announced on Saturday.
This value went down from day to day in the past week and was 291 last Saturday.
According to the information, an estimated 7700 men and women are currently actively infected.
That is 1300 less than a week ago.
However, according to an overview by the Robert Koch Institute, Saxony-Anhalt remains the second most severely affected state after Thuringia.
On average across Germany, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week is significantly lower at 90.9.
In addition, the situation in the hospitals remains tense.
According to the Ministry of Health, 178 intensive care beds were occupied on Saturday, the same number as a week ago.
According to the information, 1751 people in Saxony-Anhalt have died with a corona infection since the beginning of the pandemic.
The number of corona deaths rose by 22 within a day - and by 300 within a week.
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Despite the shortage of vaccines, vaccination continues in the counties and urban districts.
By Friday, more than 19,100 men and women in Saxony-Anhalt had already been supplied with two doses of the active ingredient and thus the full protective effect.
That's 9,000 more than a week ago, almost twice as many.
During the same period, the number of people hitchhiking in Saxony who received one of the two necessary vaccine doses rose by 7570 to around 49 310.
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Communication from the Ministry of Social Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt