The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has the on Wednesday highest number of corona deaths reported in one day since February. 527 more people died from the virus. This increases the number of reported corona deaths to 104,047.
In addition, the RKI registered 69,601 new infections. That is 2,415 more cases than on Wednesday a week ago when 67,186 were reported. It may also be late reports from Saxony, where there were problems on Tuesday. The seven-day incidence decreased to 427.0 from 432.2 the previous day. The value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been infected with the corona virus in the past seven days. The number of active corona cases in Germany was 961,900 according to the RKI. The number of corona intensive care patients in hospitals rose to 4925 on Tuesday.
It is controversial whether the extensive stagnation in the number of new infections and the incidence in the past few days indicates a flattening of the pandemic wave or is due to incorrect data collection by overburdened health authorities, especially in regions with high corona numbers. RKI boss Lothar Wieler had one significant underreporting spoken. The data situation is particularly uncertain in Saxony.
Another Incidence increase reported the RKI on Wednesday in Saxony with 1125.0. This is followed by Thuringia with 1028.0, Saxony-Anhalt with 890.0, Brandenburg with 635.1 and Baden-Württemberg with 507.6. In Bavaria the value was 493.2. The lowest incidence is still in Schleswig-Holstein with 148.7. The district of Meißen has the highest value with 2897.6.