The reproduction factor for coronavirus has dropped below R01 in Germany, the country‘s center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, announced in a new data set published on Friday.
That means that a person who has Covid-19 is now infecting fewer than one other person on average.
The important R-number, which indicates the average number of people who will catch the disease from a single infected person, is currently at 0.7, the institute said.
At a news conference on Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said pushing the reproduction number below 1 and keeping it there was key to containing the coronavirus and being able to scale back some of the restrictions on public life.
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Merkel warned that if the factor rose back to even 1.1, Germany’s health care system could be overwhelmed in a matter of months.
CNN