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Incidence at 219.9
Corona virus: RKI reports 35,826 new infections
Corona test strips from people who tested negative and positive for Covid-19 lie on a table in a corona test center (symbolic image).
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Berlin. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Friday morning as 219.9. This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. The day before, the value of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 214.2 (previous week: 205.0; previous month: 294.1).
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However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because by far not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations and transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
167 deaths in one day
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 35,826 new corona infections (previous week: 30,420) and 167 deaths (previous week: 166) to the RKI within one day. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations and transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
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The RKI has counted 36,726,061 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
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