secondOr for more than a week, the 7-day incidence rate is increasing every day.This Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 1,548 new coronavirus infections this Wednesday morning. This is an increase of 563 cases from Wednesday a week ago, when 985 new infections were reported.
The national 7-day incidence rate continues to rise-it rose to 7.1 after 6.5 the day before.This value indicates how many people have been used for every 100,000 residents in the past 7 days coronavirus Has been infected. On July 6, the value is 4.9.
Another 28 people died from the virus. This increased the reported death toll to 91,287 within 24 hours.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of coronavirus infections recorded in Germany is 3,738,683. Since many infections have not been detected, the actual total may be much higher. The number of people who have recovered from the coronavirus infection provided by RKI is approximately 3,636,800.
R value is always higher than 1
According to the RKI data on Tuesday, the reproductive number that determines the spread of the coronavirus is 1.11, so it has been higher than 1 for more than a week. This number means that 100 infected people infected 111 people. people. If the value is always higher than 1, the number of cases will increase. If it is lower than 1 for a long time, the infection rate will decrease. The R value was previously well below 1 in about two months.
To date, this incidence 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. The more people vaccinated, the rarer the severe course of the Covid-19 disease after infection. In the future, more consideration will be given to further values such as admission rate.
Vaccination quota is very important
For example, the Prime Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, Maludeje, promoted changes in the criteria for assessing the situation. “We now need a new warning level,” the Social Democratic Party politician told the Fink Media Group newspaper. “Morbidity is still an important warning factor, but we must readjust it. The higher the vaccination rate, the lower the severity of the disease, and the health system will not be overloaded soon.” Therefore, hospitals must be watched more closely. Case. You think a nationwide solution is needed.
