DThe incidence of new infections within 7 days increased slightly again.according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI) It was 76.9 on Thursday morning. The value was 75.7 the day before. It was 66.0 a week ago. German health authorities reported 13,715 new coronavirus infections to RKI in one day. This can be clearly seen in the numbers reflecting the state of the RKI dashboard at 4:10 in the morning. A week ago, the value was 12,626 infections.
According to new information, Germany recorded 33 deaths within 24 hours. 21 people died a week ago. Since the beginning of the pandemic, RKI has counted 3,970,102 detected Sars-CoV-2 infections. Since many infections have not been detected, the actual total may be much higher.
To date, the incidence of new infections has been the basis for many corona restrictions in the pandemic, for example as part of the Federal Emergency Brake that expires at the end of June. In the future, more consideration will be given to other values such as the number of admissions.
The 7-day hospitalization rate indicates how many Covid 19 hospitalized patients were reported for treatment per 100,000 residents in 7 days. On Wednesday, RKI stated in its management report that the value has been rising slowly for several weeks to 1.81. Because of the large regional differences, there is no national threshold for the incidence of hospitalization, from when the situation can be viewed critically.
The previous maximum was approximately At christmas time Around 15.5. The 7-day morbidity rate is calculated based on the RKI information based on the date reported to the local health department. According to this, the average interval from infection to hospitalization is about ten days, so the incidence of hospitalization reflects a significant delay in infection.
RKI said the number of people who recovered on Wednesday morning was 3,750,700. The number of deaths due to or confirmed infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 92,256.
STIKO suggests that intensive vaccination is needed
At the same time, medical chairman Klaus Reinhardt criticized the actions of the federal and state health ministers to vaccinate the elderly and people with weakened immune systems without corresponding advice. Standing Vaccination Committee (Stiko) provided. “In theory, there is a lot of evidence that boosted vaccination is useful for people with certain previous diseases, weakened immune systems, and very elderly people,” said Reinhardt of the German Editorial Network. However, overall, there is still a lack of meaningful research on whether, when and for whom booster vaccination should be conducted. Therefore, politicians have aroused the expectations of patients that many doctors would not want to serve without science-based vaccination recommendations. “Therefore, I think it is a mistake for the federal and state governments to widely announce the booster vaccination without waiting for the corresponding advice from Stiko.”
SPD Health Expert Karlauterbach The Permanent Vaccination Committee is required to make quick recommendations on enhanced vaccination against Covid-19. Lauterbach told the Rhein Post: “I think we must now get clear advice on the third vaccination from Stiko.” Lauterbach publicly expressed support for targeted third-party vaccination. “If unnecessary vaccinations are given to low-risk pre-vaccinated people and young people, we will not only waste vaccines that other countries need, but we cannot expect the vaccines to have any additional impact.”
