The infection dynamics of the corona virus in Rhineland-Palatinate (Pfalz) are currently slightly higher than the national average.
According to surveys by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the reproduction figure for Rhineland-Palatinate is 1.32, compared to 0.91 nationally, as announced by the Ministry of Health in Mainz on Wednesday.
An R-value of 1 means that an infected person is on average, likely to pass the virus to one other.
Fluctuations in the number of reproductions of 1 are to be expected in a situation where the infection rate is at a relatively low level, but there are still local infection hotspots, the ministry said.
The number of confirmed corona infections rose by 23 to 7,232 on Wednesday. The number of deaths remained unchanged at 236 and 259 people in the state are currently convfirmed as COVID positive.
There are an above-average number of new infections in the city of Kaiserslautern. In the past seven days, the health board registered 20 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
In Trier, there are 11 new cases in terms of population size.
