Erfurt (dpa/th) - In Thuringia, the number of new corona infections reported by the health authorities has fallen again compared to the previous week. According to the Ministry of Health, 1,381 new cases were registered on Thursday, after 1,846 on Thursday the previous week. The incidence – i.e. the new cases reported weekly per 100,000 inhabitants – was 268.6 on Thursday, also below the value of the previous weekday of 389.5.
Thuringia still has the lowest seven-day value among the federal states. However, the official figures are only meaningful to a very limited extent, and experts assume that there are many unreported cases. The reason is that only infections detected by a PCR test are included in the statistics, but not positive antigen rapid tests. In addition, late registrations and transmission problems can falsify the statistics.
