Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the corona incidence for North Rhine-Westphalia as 234.6 on Tuesday morning. The number of new corona infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants is thus higher in NRW than the national average. According to the RKI, the nationwide seven-day incidence was 183.2 on Tuesday morning. A week ago (November 15), the incidence in NRW was 268.8, four weeks ago it was significantly higher at 612.2.
In the most populous federal state, 11,976 confirmed new infections and 54 deaths related to the corona virus were added within 24 hours.
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.