Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day incidence of corona infections in North Rhine-Westphalia as 395.9 on Thursday. This emerged from the RKI dashboard. On Wednesday the value for NRW was 346.7. A week ago, the number of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week in NRW was 338.6.
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 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 the distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia recently reported 24,652 Corona new infections and 27 new deaths within a day. Comparisons of the data are also only possible here to a limited extent because of 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.
