67,390 corona cases were reported to the RKI yesterday.

Although late registrations from the holiday states of Bavaria and Saarland are likely to be included in the numbers, there is a minus of seven percent compared to the previous week.

The number of cases continues to fall, with the 7-day average reaching 40,960 today, the lowest value since June 10th.

But the downward trend seems to be coming to an end, as the comparison of the previous week’s 7-day moving average shows. The curve here is pointing up again.

The 7-day incidence falls slightly, from 314 to 312.

In five of the 16 federal states, however, it is at least rising slightly.

In addition to Schleswig-Holstein and Brandenburg, Hamburg now also has an incidence that is at least just as slightly above the level of the previous week.

And: As yesterday, the incidence is highest in those three federal states in which the school year has already started: in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, NRW and Schleswig-Holstein.

As expected, the number of deaths has started to fall.

The 7-day average of corona deaths has fallen from 127 to 113 since the end of the week before last, and the trend is downwards.

It was foreseeable that after an interim high the numbers would fall again. Because experience has shown that the reported number of deaths tends to follow the number of infections with a gap of three weeks.

In addition, case mortality has been remarkably stable at around 0.14 percent since the start of the omicron phase in early 2022.

Further significant declines in the number of deaths can therefore be expected at least until the beginning of September.

192 deceased were reported to the RKI yesterday.

Despite the late registrations from Bavaria that became necessary due to the public holiday, this is 21 fewer than a week earlier.

Every day we hear the new Corona case numbers. But what do they mean, where are we in the pandemic and what is the trend? Olaf Gersemann explains and evaluates the current figures briefly and concisely – every morning anew.

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