Frankfurt-Niederrad, wastewater, KW 43

Low and stable

→ ×1.07 per week

2 of 4 other COVID signals point the same way. Differing: GP visits with a COVID diagnosis, Germany (rising); Hospital admissions with COVID, Germany (rising).

Latest data point 21 Oct. Page built Thu 29 Oct, 15:56.

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Log shows how fast things grow; linear shows how big they are compared with past waves.

Wastewater, Frankfurt-Niederrad

Smoothed viral load with its uncertainty band; dots are individual samples, hollow ones were below the quantification limit (the RKI then counts half the limit). Newest sample: 21 Oct (ringed). Dashed lines mark where each level begins for this series.

Wastewater, Germany

Low and stable → ×1.13 per week

Average across 39 plants covering about 15% of the population, one value per week; dots are the measured weekly averages. Newest sample: 21 Oct (ringed).

COVID signals

Levels are relative to each series' own history since 1 Oct 2023. Wastewater leads; the clinical signals lag it by a week or two.

Wastewater, Frankfurt-Niederrad
low, stable → ×1.07 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 60% of samples since the baseline.
Wastewater, Hessian plants combined
low, stable → ×1.14 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 58% of weeks since the baseline.
Wastewater, Germany
low, stable → ×1.13 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 53% of weeks since the baseline.
GP visits with a COVID diagnosis, Germany
very low, rising ↗ ×1.12 per week
Data to 18 Oct, higher than 25% of weeks since the baseline. Week to 25 Oct is preliminary (hollow dot) and not counted yet.
Hospital admissions with COVID, Germany
low, rising ↗ ×1.18 per week
Data to 18 Oct, higher than 30% of weeks since the baseline. Week to 25 Oct is preliminary (hollow dot) and not counted yet.

Respiratory illness overall

All causes, not just COVID. Useful to see whether something is going around at all.

GP visits for any respiratory illness, Hessen
low, stable → ×0.95 per week
Data to 18 Oct, higher than 50% of weeks since the baseline. Week to 25 Oct is preliminary (hollow dot) and not counted yet.
Self-reported respiratory illness, Mitte (West)
moderate, stable → ×0.97 per week
Data to 18 Oct, higher than 63% of weeks since the baseline. Week to 25 Oct is preliminary (hollow dot) and not counted yet.

Other respiratory viruses

Measured in the same wastewater network and hospital sentinel. Levels relative to each series' own history.

Influenza
moderate, stable → ×1.06 per week in wastewater across Germany
Frankfurt-Niederrad: moderate, stable. Hospital admissions: low, stable. Data to 21 Oct.
RSV
very low, stable (stale) in wastewater across Germany
Frankfurt-Niederrad: very low, stable (stale). Hospital admissions: very low, stable. Data to 1 Jul.

Hessian wastewater plants

7 plants without a sample in the last six months are hidden.

Frankfurt-Griesheim
moderate, rising ↗ ×1.23 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 66% of samples since the baseline.
Frankfurt-Niederrad
low, stable → ×1.07 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 60% of samples since the baseline.
Kassel
low, rising ↗ ×1.18 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 49% of samples since the baseline.
Wiesbaden-Stadt
low, stable → ×0.94 per week
Data to 21 Oct, higher than 48% of samples since the baseline.

Sources

Source	Last fetch	Data version
AMELAG wastewater, single sites	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	1495695535ae3b4b, fetched 2026-10-29
AMELAG wastewater, national curve	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	1495695535ae3b4b, fetched 2026-10-29
ARE practice sentinel	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	65ac2d278c063338, fetched 2026-10-29
COVID-ARE practice sentinel	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	9998c7046fba3eaf, fetched 2026-10-29
SARI hospital sentinel	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	855800b7cc6bbd63, fetched 2026-10-29
GrippeWeb	ok, 2026-10-29 14:56 UTC	7b543c9576407efa, fetched 2026-10-29

Variants and the RKI's own reading: ARE weekly report, variant dashboard, AMELAG weekly report, Infektionsradar.