Cologne (dpa / lnw) - According to a media report, Cologne assumes an incidence that exceeds the officially measured value many times over. "The viral load in the wastewater was already increasing before the carnival, this trend continued during the street carnival and the week after," the "Rheinische Post" (Friday) quoted a spokeswoman for the city of Cologne as saying. "The health department assumes that the incidence is now ten times higher than the officially measured value."
In its weekly report on Thursday evening, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported that the corona incidence values had increased in regions "with stronger carnival activities". Accordingly, the nationwide increase in incidence continued last week at a low level: it was estimated at 14 percent compared to the week before. According to the report, however, the values rose particularly sharply in Rhineland-Palatinate (36 percent), North Rhine-Westphalia (35 percent) and Saarland (34 percent) as well as in the 20 to 29 age group. However, this information only relates to laboratory-confirmed corona cases.
Based on its data for Thursday, the RKI reported a value of 385.3 new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days for Cologne.
