Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) – In Hesse, the corona incidence has continued to fall. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the seven-day incidence nationwide was 170.1 on Tuesday after 190.5 a week ago. The number tells you how many new infections per 100,000 inhabitants were reported within seven days.
It is believed that the actual level of Sars-CoV-2 infections is higher because there are fewer tests. In addition, only positive PCR tests are recorded by the health authorities. Late registrations can also lead to the distortion of daily values.
The number of deaths from or with corona disease rose to 11,663 (plus 61) in a weekly comparison. In which cases Covid-19 was the main cause of death and in which cases the patients died of other diseases but were also infected with the corona virus is not usually clear from the information provided by the hospitals.
The hospitalization incidence in Hesse continues to decline, as announced by the Ministry of Social Affairs in Wiesbaden. This was 4.23 on Tuesday. A week earlier, the reading was 5.04. The hospitalization incidence indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were newly admitted to hospitals with a corona infection within seven days.
According to the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), the number of adults in the intensive care units in Hesse with Covid-19 has also fallen. Their number was 82 on Tuesday, 37 of whom were ventilated. A week earlier, the Divi had listed 90 intensive care patients, 38 of whom were ventilated.
