The seven-day incidence has skyrocketed again.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) this Thursday morning, it is 8.0.

The previous day the value was 7.1 and before that it was 6.5.

At the latest low on July 6, there were still 4.9 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.

The health authorities in Germany reported 1,642 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.

For comparison: a week ago the value was 970 infections.

The incidence has so far been the basis for many corona restrictions in the pandemic, for example as part of the federal emergency brake that expired at the end of June.

In the future, other values ​​such as hospital admissions are to be taken more into account.

Four federal states have already exceeded a seven-day incidence of 10: Berlin (11.6), Bremen (10.7), Hamburg (10.3) and Hesse with 10.5.

Saxony-Anhalt has the lowest value with 2.3.

32 new deaths reported

According to the new information, 32 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours.

A week ago there were 31 dead.

This increased the number of people who died with or with a proven infection with the Sars-CoV-2 virus to 91,319.

The RKI has counted 3,740,325 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 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 3,637,400.

According to RKI data from Wednesday, the reproduction number, which is decisive for the speed of spread of the coronavirus, was 1.18 and has thus been above the value of 1 for more than a week. The number means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 118 more people.

If the value is consistently above 1, the number of cases increases.

If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection rate subsides.

The R-value was previously well below 1 for around two months.

Fewer vaccinations in Germany

The number of weekly corona vaccinations continues to decrease.

The total number of weekly vaccine doses administered has decreased since the third week of June, wrote the RKI in its status report on Wednesday, without giving a specific number for the past week.

In the previous week (June 28 to July 4) there were 5.0 million corona vaccinations in Germany according to previously published figures, and 5.6 million a week earlier.

According to the RKI, more than 49 million people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus at least once.

This corresponds to a rate of 58.9 percent.

43.7 percent are fully vaccinated.

For people aged 60 and over, this proportion is over 70 percent.

For children and adolescents under 18, it is less than two percent.

From the point of view of the RKI, at least 85 percent of 12 to 59 year olds and 90 percent of people aged 60 and over should be fully vaccinated in the fight against the delta variant.

Discussion about test costs for those unwilling to vaccinate

The President of the German Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, spoke out in favor of no longer offering free corona tests to those who refused to vaccinate from the autumn. "If everyone has a chance to get a full vaccination by the end of summer, it is fair that unvaccinated rapid or PCR tests should have to pay for themselves when going on vacation, going to restaurants or going to the movies," said Reinhardt to the editorial network Germany. "In the end, it shouldn't be the case that the community has to pay for individuals who are unwilling to vaccinate," said Reinhardt. Politicians should already make it clear "that in the long run there will be more and more disadvantages for unvaccinated people," said the medical president.

The Federal Government's Tourism Commissioner, Thomas Bareiß (CDU), also sees the end of free corona tests for those unwilling to vaccinate “a question of justice”. The costs for the tests would be borne by the general public and that would be correct as long as not everyone had received a vaccination offer, said Bareiß on Wednesday. But it is also clear that those who refuse to be vaccinated have to be aware of their responsibility and in future should bear the costs of any tests that are still necessary themselves.

Previously, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had made a similar statement. “Testing costs enormous sums of money,” said Söder. Therefore, it must also be considered whether the corona tests could remain free if everyone had received a vaccination offer. Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) said on Tuesday that they are currently still in a phase of conviction, in a later phase one could certainly think about the end of the free corona tests in Germany for unvaccinated people. In France, PCR tests will become chargeable from autumn, unless they have been prescribed.