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Dresden / Berlin (dpa / sn) - The corona infections in Saxony continue to increase.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed an incidence of 127.1 for the country on Friday.
The previous day, the weekly value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants was 109.7.
Nationwide, the incidence was 95.6.
Corona hotspot in Saxony remains the Vogtlandkreis with a new infection rate of 358.9.
This is the second highest value nationwide after the neighboring district of Greiz in Thuringia.
In Saxony, only five of the 13 regions are below the critical limit of 100.
These are the districts of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (96.9), Bautzen (92.1) and Leipzig (883) as well as the major cities of Dresden (88.5) and Leipzig (73.2).
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If the incidence is over 100 on five working days in a row, schools and day-care centers in Saxony have to close again.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Culture and Health announced that this would be the case in the districts of Zwickau, North Saxony and the Ore Mountains from Monday.
The regulation was still open for the district of Meissen.
There the RKI put the incidence on Friday at 136.1.
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