The number of deaths in Germany has exceeded 4,000, and more than 137,000 people have now been reported as infected with the coronavirus (as of April 17, 7:18 p.m.).
Around 81,800 people have recovered, which is around 4,700 more than the day before, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on its website.
The good news for the weekend!
According to the RKI, the infection rate with the new type of corona virus has dropped in Germany!
The RKI published new statistics on Thursday evening. Accordingly, each infected person infects less than one other person. In other words, the so-called reproduction rate is 0.7. This means that the number of new cases is falling slightly. In early March, this key figure was three, on April 8 1.3.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, the number of reported infections in Germany rose by 3,380 to 133,830. The number of deaths increased by 299 to 3868 within 24 hours.
Wieler had said on Tuesday that if the epidemic subsided, this number of reproductions would have to be below 1. However, he had also said that if the measures were to be relaxed, not only the number of reproductions was relevant, but also the proportion of immune people in the population and the capacities of the health system.