Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – The corona incidence has fallen in Hesse over the past week. The seven-day incidence, i.e. the number of reported new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, was 828.7 nationwide on Friday, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). A week earlier, the reading was 948.8.
The hospitalization incidence on Friday was 12.88 – a week earlier it had been 12.17. This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were admitted to hospital with a corona infection within seven days.
It should be noted with the data that the seven-day incidence does not currently provide a complete picture of the infection situation. Experts assume a high number of unrecorded cases – mainly because not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
Almost 2.63 million corona infections have been registered in Hesse since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the RKI, the number of deaths related to Covid-19 was 11,267 on Friday – an increase of 86 cases within a week. In which cases Covid-19 was the main cause of death and in which 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.
According to data from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), there were 170 adult patients with Covid-19 in the intensive care units of the Hessian clinics on Friday (as of 1:05 p.m.). 52 of them had to be ventilated.
