Justin updates the German count each day, and its getting ugly again.
In brief:
- Germany reported 933 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday
- That is just about 3 times as many as the day before (admittedly coming off a weekend the numbers can be skewed)
- rising figure comes 6 days after the country reopened shops, some schools
- Germany's "R" rate has climbed above 1 for the past 3 days (see below for what R is)
Authorities are considering reintroducing lockdown measures
- Trigger for this is if there are more than 50 cases per 100,000 people
Watch this not just in German, but other countries. Yesterday I posted on a rise in cases in South Korea:
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R rate of 1 means that on average an infected person infects one other
Above 1 means that the outbreak is worsening
