According to Wieler, the delta is even more contagious than the alpha variant, first registered in Britain. According to him, it spreads mainly among the unvaccinated population. The director of RKI therefore expects that the daily numbers of newly infected will soon start to rise again. The fact that the so-called seven-day incidence in Germany continues to decline is attributed to the decrease in cases of the alpha variant.
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According to Reuters, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said that the delta variant would prevail in Germany by the summer. “Ignoring the delta variant would be a serious mistake,” he added, adding that no one should expect problems with a more contagious mutation to go away on their own. In this context, Söder called for vaccination of those citizens who have not yet done so. 54 percent of the German population has already received at least one dose of covid vaccine, about 35 percent are fully vaccinated.
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RKI reported 219 new cases of coronavirus infection and eight covid-19 deaths in the past day, with 346 new infections and ten deaths a week ago. In a country with a population of 83 million, the RKI has registered almost 3.73 million infected people and 90,762 deaths with covid-19 since the beginning of the epidemic.
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The total number of infections in the last seven days per 100,000 population dropped to 5.6. The previous day the incidence was 5.7, a week earlier 8.6. The seven-day reproduction number was 0.79 on Sunday evening. This means that an average of 100 infected people will infect another 79 people. If the reproductive number is less than one for a long time, the epidemic subsides.
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