This is how the delta virus variant controls Europe’s largest economy

Delta is the twenty-fifth of the year. In the week, June 21-27. It became dominant, causing 59 percent of new infections.

One week ago, the rate was 37 percent, two weeks ago it was 17 percent, three weeks ago it was 8 percent, and four weeks ago the rate was just 4 percent, according to the institute.

RKI regularly analyzes positive SARS-CoV-2 test results. Approximately one in ten of these discoveries is addressed. They check which copy of the virus has entered the infected body. Results are reported weekly. The data refer to the last two weeks, respectively.

The spread of the Delta version, formerly known as the Indians, also registered under the designation B.1.617.2, is due to the fact that after two months of continuous relief The epidemiological situation in Germany has deteriorated again in recent days.

According to RKI data on Thursday, 970 infections were examined in the past 24 hours, nearly 10 percent more than 892 in the previous week.

The number of new cases rose for the fifth consecutive day and for the fifth time in the past seven days.

Also in the last days For the first time since the end of April, the so-called reproduction rate (R) rose again above the limit of 1, indicating a decline and spread of the virus. The index rose to 1.09 from 1.01 the day before, according to an RKI calculation on Thursday. This means that for every 100 new infections, the virus is transmitted to an average of 109 people.

According to the institute, due to the prevalence of the delta variant, vaccination of at least 85 percent in the 12-59 age group and 90 percent for those over the age of 60 is necessary to avoid another wave of epidemics.

However, the vaccination campaign has slowed in recent days. According to the federal government’s summary Thursday, an average of 669,861 doses of the vaccine were administered per day over the previous seven days. That number was still over 800,000 in mid-June.

At least one dose of the vaccine was given to 57.6 percent of the population — 478,72792 people. 40.8 percent of the population – 3,390,828 people – have fully vaccinated.

Besides the newly recorded infections, SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in 3,732,549 people in Germany. With regard to the disease caused by the (Covid-19) virus, 31 deaths were recorded in one day, bringing the number of victims of the epidemic to 91,141.

Cover photo: People waiting to be queued at Dusseldorf International Airport on July 2, 2021, after the holiday season began in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and travel restrictions were lifted in several European countries to curb the coronavirus epidemic Source: MTI/EPA/Sascha Steinbach