Within a day have reported to the health authorities in Germany, 625 new Corona infections. This is evident from the data of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from early Sunday morning. On Friday and Saturday, the RKI had been reported in each of more than 1400 new infections within 24 hours – as much as since the beginning of may, not more. On Sundays, the reported Numbers are according to experience, often lower, because on the weekend not all health authorities submit data to the RKI.
The highlight of the daily reported numbers of people infected was located at the beginning of April at more than 6000. The number was dropped after the still over 1000 and the values in may, in the tendency, since the end of July it rises again. Experts are concerned that a sharp increase in the number of cases could bring the health departments in the tracking of contagion, chains of boundaries.
reproduction number increases
Since the beginning of the Corona-crisis, at least 223.453 people in Germany have been confirmed with the Virus Sars-CoV-2, such as the RKI reported on Sunday morning on the Internet. The number of deaths in connection with a Corona virus according to RKI data to the previous day unchanged at 9231. Until Sunday morning, about 201.300 people had survived the infection, according to the RKI estimates.
The reproduction number, in short the R-value, according to the RKI estimates as of 15.8., 0: 00, in Germany, at 1.29 (before: EUR 1.08). This means that an Infected person infects an average of a little more than other people. The R-value in each case forms the infection from happening about a week and a half before.
Date Of Update: 16 August 2020, 02:19
