2023 has begun, it is the third year after the outbreak of the corona pandemic. And for the first time it looks like it could be over: The prominent virologist Christian Drosten said just before the end of 2022 that we are now transitioning from a pandemic to an endemic. So that means the disease is now considered native, so it’s one that keeps popping up here. Other endemic diseases in Germany are influenza (flu) or cold viruses. But now travelers from China are worrying again: is there a new variant coming?
Current corona numbers in Germany today: Incidence, hospitalization rate & Co. on January 14th, 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 January 14th, 2023 at a glance:
- seven-day incidence: 104.1 (previous day: 106.8); (previous week: 151.0)
- New infections today: 10,609
- Total infections: 37,605,135
- New deaths: 150
- Total deaths: 163,775
- 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 13.01.2023 with 5,97 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: 01/14/2023)
- 174.0—Lower Saxony
- 133,9 – Bremen
- 125.3 – North Rhine-Westphalia
- 116.0—Hesse
- 112,6 – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 106.3—Saarland
- 98.1 – Saxony-Anhalt
- 94.3 – Rhineland-Palatinate
- 89,4 – Bayern
- 87,4 – Brandenburg
- 83,5 – Schleswig-Holstein
- 83,4 – Berlin
- 79,8 – Hamburg
- 77,1 – Baden-Wuerttemberg
- 58.2—Saxony
- 58.2 – Thuringia
Corona numbers yesterday and a week ago – incidences and new infections in Germany
RKI dashboard with information on current corona numbers
The following information on the current corona situation in Germany can also be seen on the dashboard of the Robert Koch Institute on the morning of January 7, 2023: “After the Christmas holidays and the turn of the year, the epidemiological situation cannot be assessed in the same way as in the rest of the year will. Schools and daycare centers are closed nationwide, contact patterns and mobility behavior are different. Because fewer people are visiting a doctor’s office during this time, fewer samples are taken and fewer laboratory tests are performed. As a result, fewer pathogens are reported to the responsible health authorities. During this time, not all health authorities and responsible state authorities will transmit data to the RKI every day.
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 by far 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.
