"Bottom ahead" - The current corona numbers explained for you

46,724 corona cases were reported to the RKI yesterday.

In a week-on-week comparison, we are now at 22 consecutive weekday declines.

The minus today is only a comparatively small six percent.

The 7-day incidence falls again after the small increase from the previous day, from 314 to 313.

It increases in five of the 16 federal states.

There are indications that the number of corona cases or incidences in Germany will bottom out in the foreseeable future.

The 7-day average of new cases is only falling slowly, and is currently between 40,000 and 41,000 for the third day in a row.

And: The minus compared to the previous week in the 7-day average has been steadily decreasing for eleven days, it is now less than ten percent, tendency: further shrinking.

NRW is once again the pioneer here. The incidence there has been moving sideways for almost two weeks.

In early summer, NRW was also the first federal state in which the summer wave lost momentum.

NRW was also the first federal state in which the summer holidays had started. And the first federal state in which school started again.

169 deceased were reported to the RKI yesterday, two more than a week ago.

Overall, this week we are at 685 deceased so far.

Every day we hear the new Corona case numbers. But what do they mean, where are we in the pandemic and what is the trend? Olaf Gersemann explains and evaluates the current figures briefly and concisely - every morning anew.

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