More than 11,000 new infections, 7-day incidence increases

Berlin. The German health authorities reported 11,869 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)-1662 more than exactly a week ago on February 18. This emerges from the numbers of the RKI on Thursday.

The number of new infections (incidence of seven days) registered within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants was 61.7 higher on Thursday morning than the previous day (59.3) throughout the country.

Fewer deaths

In addition, 385 further deaths were registered within 24 hours. That was less than exactly a week ago: At this point, the RKI had registered 10,207 new infections and 534 new deaths within one day. The data will be the status of the RKI dashboard from Thursday, 3:10 a.m. Subsequent changes or additions are possible.

Highest stalls in December and January

The seven-day incidence was four weeks ago, on January 28th, 98. His previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6

The highest level of 1,244 newly reported deaths was reached on January 14th. In new infections that were registered within 24 hours, the highest value was reached on December 18 at 33,777 - but it contained 3500 late reports.

More than 2.4 million infections

The RKI has counted 2,414,687 proven infections with SARS-COV-2 in Germany since the beginning of pandemic (as of February 25, 3:10 a.m.). The actual total number should be significantly higher because many infections are not recognized. The RKI stated that the number of people secured recovered to around 2,226,500. The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-Cov-2 rose to 69.125.

R value at 0.98

According to the RKI management report on Wednesday evening, the nationwide 7-day-R value was 0.98 (the previous day also 0.98). This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 98 more people. The value indicates the appearance of the infection 8 to 16 days ago. If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process decreases. The RKI data re-release the status of the RKI dashboard from 6 p.m. Subsequent changes or additions are possible.