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RKI today: Corona numbers Germany up-to-date on May 21, 2022


The number of corona cases in Germany has been falling nationwide for weeks, including them hospitalization rate sinks. Those are the current values ​​too new infections and the 7-day incidence.

What values ​​and numbers does that deliver Dashboard from RKI today, on Saturday, May 21, for the Corona situation in Germany?

  • How high are the current ones Coronazahlen and Incidents today in Deutschland?
  • How are they incidence values the Federal states in comparison there?
  • How many new infections is there today?
  • how high is the hospitalization rate?
  • vaccination rate and Booster – How about them Corona vaccinations in Germany?
  • What are the latest corona case numbers today sea RKI-Dashboard?

Current corona numbers in Germany today: Incidence, hospitalization rate & Co. on May 21, 2022

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 May 21, 2022 at a glance:

  • seven-day incidence: 342.0 (previous day: 361.8); (previous week: 477.0)
  • New infections today: 42,375
  • Total infections: 26,040,460
  • New deaths: 120
  • Total deaths: 138,324
  • Vaccination rate (first vaccination): 77.6 percent
  • Vaccination rate (complete): 75.9 percent
  • Vaccination rate booster vaccinations: 59.6 percent
  • hospitalization rate: The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was given as 3.12 in Germany on Friday. 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: 21.5.2022)

  • 522,6 – Schleswig-Holstein
  • 465.7 – Lower Saxony
  • 413.4—Hesse
  • 394,0 – Bremen
  • 381,5 – Bayern
  • 347.3 – North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 345,3 – Hamburg
  • 315.3 – Baden-Württemberg
  • 312,9 – Rheinland-Pfalz
  • 291.2 – Saarland
  • 268,3 – Berlin
  • 261,7 – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • 216.4 – Saxony-Anhalt
  • 202,7 – Brandenburg
  • 172.3—Saxony
  • 133.2 – Thuringia

How meaningful are the current corona numbers?

When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual states do not report data on every day of the week, and at weekends, for example, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg 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. In addition, 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.

Corona numbers yesterday and a week ago – incidences and new infections in Germany

Yesterday, the RKI reported 48,910 new infections within 24 hours. A week ago, on Saturday, May 14th, 2022, there were 61,859 new infections. At the end of January, on January 24th, 2022, the incidence in Germany was over 1000 for the first time.-

The 7-day incidence has so far been the basis for corona rules and restrictions during the corona pandemic, for example as part of the federal emergency brake that expired at the end of June 2021. Other values ​​such as Hospital Admissions (Hospitalization Incidence) taken more into account and used as parameters for any measures.

Current corona numbers in Europe – incidence and new infections in Italy, Austria and more

How does the incidence in Germany compare to other European countries? Below are the new infections and the current incidence value in selected European countries – as of May 21, 2022:

  • Austria: 4426 new infections; Incidence: 298
  • Italy: 30,722 new infections; Incidence: 370.1.4
  • France: 27,842 new infections; Incidence: 337.6
  • Poland: 359 new infections; Incidence: 6.3
  • Czech Republic: 364 new infections; Incidence: 22.6
  • Netherlands: 1436 new infections; Incidence: 48.7

Meaning of the most important corona terms – What are hospitalization, triage and Co.?

Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, there have always been new ones terms and metrics. Some of them – such as incidence or hotspot – have become established. Nevertheless, their meaning and definition changed depending on the Corona situation. New terms are also being added all the time. For example: hospitalization incidence, triage or 2G+ rule. The explanation of the most important key figures and terms in the corona pandemic here in the overview.-


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