The rates of Infection with the novel Coronavirus has increased in Germany, according to the Robert Koch-Institute again.
According to the on Monday evening published the RKI statistics, every Infected is now and again another people, the so-called reproduction rate is at 1.0 (data as of 27.04. 0: 00).
This means that the number of new cases has fallen slightly in the past few days.
At the beginning of March, the key number was three, at the 8. April, at 1.3, in the past few days, and 0.9, respectively, with a certain degree of variation width. The measure indicates how many people are infected with a sick Person, on average.
R-value should be below 1
The RKI has repeatedly stressed, in order to let the epidemic is tailing off, should be this reproduction number below 1. Also, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had made in the Wake of the announcement of the first relaxation in Corona-measures that even seemingly small Changes in the reproduction number can have significant consequences.
According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, approximately 114,000 people have survived in Germany, the infection. As for other countries, experts also expect in Germany, with a high number of unreported cases of non-scheduled cases.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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