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Wiesbaden / Berlin (dpa / lhe) - The number of new corona infections in Hesse continues to rise.
Within 24 hours, 2252 cases were reported to the authorities, according to data from the Berlin Robert Koch Institute on Saturday (as of 3:10 a.m.).
There were another 18 deaths associated with the virus.
The nationwide incidence, i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, increased to 176.3 from 165.6 the previous day.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 253 605 infections and 6733 deaths in connection with the virus have been registered in Hesse.
In the regions, the city of Offenbach continued to have the highest incidence at 313.9.
The districts of Limburg-Weilburg (295.5), Fulda (271.6), Hersfeld-Rotenburg (265.9), Gießen (219.1), the city of Kassel (209.8) as well were above the value of 200 the district of Groß-Gerau (209.3).
The Werra-Meißner district (103.3) and the Wetterau district (109.6) had the lowest values.
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According to data from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (as of 9.19 a.m.), there were 453 Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units of Hessian hospitals, 227 of whom were ventilated.
1724 of 1951 available intensive care beds were occupied - also by people with other diseases.
Around 1.3 million people received their first vaccination against the coronavirus (as of Saturday, 9.40 a.m.) - that is, 20.8 percent of the population.
This means that Hessen has the lowest rate in a nationwide comparison.
Almost 463,800 people are fully vaccinated (rate 7.4).
Here, Hesse ranks sixth nationwide.
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