Relaxes the Corona-Lage further in Germany? The number of officially confirmed corona cases in Germany has continued to fall significantly in the past week. The Robert Koch Institute writes: “At the beginning of the new year, the downward trend continues, with a sharp fall in the number of cases in the first few weeks of the year.” The incidence alone is now considered to be of little significance, but the trend is confirmed by other indicators. According to the RKI, this has also been falling for weeks Number of patients with a severe acute respiratory infection and a Covid-19 diagnosis were treated in hospital. In addition, the occupancy of the intensive care units with corona infected people continues to decrease.
Current corona numbers in Germany today: Incidence, hospitalization rate & Co. on February 2nd, 2023
How many new infections are there nationwide today? how high is the incidence compared to yesterday and the previous week? And how high is the current one hospitalization rate?
The latest RKI case numbers for Germany from February 2nd, 2023 at a glance:
- seven-day incidence: 92.1 (previous day: 88.3); (previous week: 74.4)
- New infections today: 16,957
- Total infections: 37,796,790
- New deaths: 154
- Total deaths: 165,865
- Vaccination rate (first vaccination): 77.9 percent
- Vaccination rate (complete): 76.4 percent
- Vaccination rate booster vaccinations: 62.6 percent
- hospitalization rate: The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was in Germany am 01.02.2023 with 4,71 specified. This value is not updated on weekends and public holidays. The previous high for the hospitalization rate was around 15 around Christmas 2020.
Current corona numbers: incidence values of Bavaria, BW, Brandenburg and all of Germany
There are clear regional differences in the corona numbers in the federal states. Where is the incidence current highest and where lowest? (Status: 02/02/2023)
- 142.5—Lower Saxony
- 90,2 – Bremen
- 76,7 – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 121.2 – North Rhine-Westphalia
- 99.5 – Saarland
- 78.6 – Rhineland-Palatinate
- 101.4—Hesse
- 59,4 – Brandenburg
- 58,9 – Berlin
- 42,2 – Hamburg
- 51,1 – Schleswig-Holstein
- 63.5 – Saxony-Anhalt
- 49.6—Saxony
- 101,0 – Bayern
- 69,0 – Baden-Wuerttemberg
- 35.6 – Thuringia
Corona numbers yesterday and a week ago – incidences and new infections in Germany
How meaningful are the current corona numbers?
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values. Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems. In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, since many federal states do not transmit them to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
