Coronavirus: number of new infections at the highest level in four weeks

The number of new infections with the Coronavirus within 24 hours is as high as since a month not more.

The health departments reported to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) 770 new cases (data 19.6., 0: 00).

Finally, the value was at 20. May so high (797 new infections). Overall, the Corona since the beginning of the crisis 188.534 people in Germany is proven with Sars-CoV-2, as the RKI reported.

Outbreak in meat operations cause?

A cause for the comparatively high number of new infections could be the outbreak in a meat processing operation in Eastern Westphalia, the district of Gütersloh.

This exceeds, according to the RKI information to the Federal government and the länder agreed threshold of 50 Corona-new infections significantly.

On Thursday night the circle had been reported in 730 registered new infections (the previous day 657). Were evaluated 1.106 the results of one of the authorities is arranged a series of tests, was continued on Thursday.

For thousands of employees of the slaughterhouse Tests are still to come. This to 23, according to the information of the circle is still expected to to to. In June last. Schools and nurseries are closed in Gütersloh already.

Other counties with many new infections per 100 000 inhabitants in the past seven days are Verden according to RKI, Magdeburg, the Berlin district of Neukölln, and were in the village. 135 of 412 districts reported in the past seven days, no new infections.

R-value is still 1

EUR 8,872 with the Virus infected people died according to the RKI in Germany – this means an increase of 16 compared to the previous day. Estimated 174.400 people have survived the infection, according to the RKI information. That is about 400 more than the day before.

The reproduction number, in short the R-value, according to the RKI estimates with data 18.6., 0.00, unchanged at 0.86, below the critical level of 1.0. This means that an Infected person infects on average less than one other people. The R-value in each case forms the infection from happening about a week and a half before.

Since the middle of may, the RKI is also a so-called Seven-days-R. It refers to a longer period of time and is therefore subject to less current fluctuations. According to the RKI estimates of this value increased with data 18.6., 0: 00, to 1.0 (the previous day: 0,89). He shows that the Infection occurred from 8 to 16 days

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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