Which region can currently claim to have remained without a new corona infection within a week?

The answer: none.

If at the end of the week Vogelsberg was the only district in Hesse to have a clean slate in this regard, the Ministry of Social Affairs is now reporting three new cases recorded overnight.

This also makes the zero incidence obsolete.

After all, the Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Schwalm-Eder districts have not reported any new infections since Friday.

You are one of the ten districts in Hesse that have recorded fewer than five new cases among 100,000 residents in the past seven days.

Thorsten Winter

Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    All five major cities are above this mark, with Wiesbaden doing the best with a score of just under eight.

    According to the Robert Koch Institute, Frankfurt comes in at 19.3.

    This is the highest value among the major Hessian cities, but on Friday the Main metropolis was still 1.3 points higher.

    In this respect, the infection process has calmed down a little.

    Regardless of this, Frankfurt remains among the five cities and districts in Germany with the highest incidences and ranks fifth.

    The Main-Taunus-Kreis is right in front of it.

    The incidence there, at 19.7, is more than twice as high as a week ago.

    In Germany only Bremen has a higher index than Hesse.

    Several special vaccination campaigns

    On Sunday in Büdingen, the Johnson & Johnson product, which only requires one injection, will be administered throughout the day.

    The district of Wetterau justifies this with the great success of such an action a few weeks ago.

    The same thing had happened in Butzbach.

    A vaccination campaign with Johnson & Johnson in the Frankfurt Festhalle for 2,600 Frankfurters is still running until Sunday.

    In the Main-Kinzig-Kreis there is a vaccination bus on certain days.

    Exact dates can be found here.

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    Trend reversal in incidence?

    According to the RKI, the Hessian health authorities reported 129 new cases overnight after 123 a week ago and 177 a month ago.

    Officially, 291,670 people in Hessen have been infected with a variant of the corona virus.

    Around 1200 infections are still active, which means a slight increase.

    Since June 12, the Hessen incidence has fallen from 22.1 to 8.9.

    Recently, however, it has been picking up again;

    on Friday the RKI reported a value of 8.5.

    The federal institute has recorded three more deaths in connection with Covid-19.

    Since the beginning of the pandemic in March last year, there have been 7,555.

    57 percent of the Hessians with the first vaccination

    With both vaccination rates, the centrally located federal state is still below the federal average.

    After an intermediate spurt, Hessen lags a little behind the federal government when it comes to vaccination: According to the latest data, 56.2 percent of people in Hessen have received a first vaccination against the corona virus.

    Hessen is now 0.9 points below the federal average, 0.2 better than on Thursday.

    The front runner is Bremen with 67 percent first vaccinations - Rhineland-Palatinate has 59.

    In the case of the fully vaccinated, Hesse lags more clearly behind the federal mean.

    Hessen has 40.2 percent, which is 1.3 percentage points below the average, but the gap is closing somewhat.

    3.58 million people in Hesse are vaccinated at least once, 2.52 million already have complete vaccination protection, that is a good 40 percent.

    Resident doctors and staff have so far administered more than 2.01 million vaccinations, as the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians announced.

    Since the beginning of April, the general practitioners' practices in Hesse have also been vaccinated against Covid-19, a little later the specialist practices and, since June 7th, the company doctors have been added.

    Meanwhile, the state is trying not to let the vaccination fatigue that is spreading in other countries arise in Hesse in the first place.

    "Now it is important not to let up: Get vaccinated as soon as you receive a vaccination offer - so that we are also prepared for autumn," is the appeal of the state government.