The number of new corona infections in Germany has risen sharply – and exceeded 50,000 for the first time in the pandemic. The health authorities in Germany reported the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) the maximum value of within one day 50,196 new corona infections.
The day before there were 39,676 infections and exactly one week ago the value was 33,949 infections. The value on Wednesday was already a high.
The nationwide seven-day incidence also reached a peak again. The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Thursday morning at 249.1 . It has thus risen to a high for the fourth day in a row. On Wednesday the value was 232.1. For comparison: a week ago the incidence was 154.5 (previous month: 66.5).
New Covid cases in Germany have increased by 26% in one day:
Covid deaths in Germany are tracking at about the same level as the winter wave of November 2020:
11th November 2021: Big crowd in Cologne at the beginning of the carnival
The carnival start in Cologne evidently meets with great interest. On Thursday morning, a queue in front of the locked party zone in the old town stretched hundreds of meters. “I haven’t been expecting the queue that long,” said Tim (35), who had come from Berlin and disguised as a cardinal. The high corona incidences would not have deterred him, he said. “In itself it is the safest thing there is. It’s 2G, it’s outside, we are all vaccinated, we have no previous illnesses. «The trip with the ICE from Berlin to Cologne was riskier, said a friend of Tim’s.
