Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) – The number of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days was 265.5 in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday. This emerged from the figures published by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Within 24 hours, 14,996 confirmed new cases and 49 deaths related to the corona virus were added. A week earlier, the seven-day incidence in NRW was 233.7. A reading of 268.8 had been reported four weeks earlier.
However, the information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI – 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.
