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Berlin (dpa) - The health authorities in Germany reported 18,034 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
This is based on the RKI figures from the morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5:15 a.m.
For comparison: on Wednesday a week ago, the value was 22,231.
According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days was 132.8 nationwide in the morning (previous day: 141.4; previous week: 160.6)
According to the RKI, 285 new deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.
Exactly a week ago there were 312 dead.
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The RKI has counted 3,451,550 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.
The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 3,084,700.
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 83,876.
According to the RKI situation report from Tuesday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.82 (previous day: 0.88).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 82 more people.
The R-value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
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