Second double zero: As on the weekend before last, the RKI did not report any corona cases on Saturday and Sunday.

Accordingly, the number of cases reported tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will again be distorted by late reports.

The 7-day incidence falls from 680 to 665 due to the nationwide non-reporting on Sunday.

But there is also a minus of 44 points compared to the previous week.

Ten of the 16 federal states contributed to this decline.

The number of urban and rural districts with very high incidences is slightly declining again.

On Thursday, 93 of the 412 districts still had an incidence of more than 1000.

Today there are 62, 14 fewer than a week ago.

644 corona deaths were registered in the past calendar week, 19 fewer than the week before.

This is the first week-on-week decline after four consecutive increases.

The number of corona cases in intensive care units rose to 1440 yesterday.

For the first time in 2022, the number of Covid 19 patients treated in intensive care is more than four times as high as a year ago.

Meanwhile, the proportion of intensive care units that describe their operating situation as “restricted” or “partially restricted” continues to rise – to 63%.

And the 7-day average of free ICU beds dropped to 2730 yesterday.

This is the lowest daily value since December 23, 2021.

The number of corona cases reported weekly has fallen for the first time since the start of the summer wave at the beginning of June – from 667,000 cases in the week before last to 638,000 cases in the previous week.

However, the wave has not yet broken in the particularly vulnerable age group 60.

Here the number of cases has continued to rise in the past week, albeit only by a comparatively modest 1.5 percent.

In contrast: the younger ones. In the U15s, the number of cases has fallen by a disproportionately large 12 percent.

This further widens the generation gap: while at the peak of the second omicron wave in April, a similar number of under-15s and over-60s were registered, there are now far more than twice as many over-60s as under-15s.

Of course, this can currently be due to the summer holidays, which are now available in 14 of the 16 federal states.

However, a certain contamination effect is also possible.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 18 corona cases per 100 inhabitants among those over 80.

For 5 to 14-year-olds, on the other hand, it was 54 per 100 inhabitants, i.e. three times as many.

Every day we hear the new Corona case numbers. But what do they mean, where are we in the pandemic and what is the trend? Olaf Gersemann explains and evaluates the current figures briefly and concisely – every morning anew.

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