Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the corona incidence for North Rhine-Westphalia as 612.2 on Tuesday. That was slightly lower than last Tuesday’s reading of 621.4. Within 24 hours, 29,932 confirmed new cases and 50 deaths related to the corona virus were reported in NRW.
However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for a long time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – mainly because by far not all infected people have a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. In addition, late registrations and transmission problems can lead to the distortion of individual daily values.
