Status: 04/28/2022 05:34 am
The RKI reported 130,104 new infections in the morning. The seven-day incidence continues to fall – to 826. Today the health ministers are discussing a new regulation of the obligation to isolate.
The nationwide seven-day incidence has continued to fall. The Robert Koch Institute gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week in the morning at 826.0. For comparison: the day before the value was 887.6. A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 720.6 (previous month: 1700.6).
The health authorities in Germany reported 130,104 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. A week ago there were 186,325 registered infections.
When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual states do not report data every day of the week, and at weekends, for example, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Saxony do not, or only partially, report data. This in turn leads to late registrations on the following days. A comparison of daily values is therefore becoming increasingly difficult. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – due to overworked health authorities and because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only these count in the statistics.
According to the new information, 246 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 324 deaths. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 24,609,159 proven infections with Sars-CoV-2. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected. The number of people who died from or involved a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 135,078.
Doctors’ representatives are demanding uniform isolation rules
Meanwhile, doctors’ representatives are calling for nationwide uniform rules for the isolation of people infected with corona. It needs “clear regulations that do not differ from country to country,” said the chairwoman of the doctors’ union Marburger Bund, Susanne Johna, the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Today, the federal and state health ministers want to discuss the new regulation of the obligation to isolate. Bavaria and Saxony have already reduced the previous period of ten days to five days. However, this only makes sense if the test result is negative and there are no symptoms for 48 hours, said Johna. The evidence should come from a testing site, such as a testing center or doctor’s office.