"The Little North Wave Breaks"

28,653 Corona cases were reported to the RKI yesterday.

That's 30 percent less than a week ago.

The nationwide 7-day incidence is falling, from 189 to 175.

There was recently a clear gap in the number of cases between northern and southern Germany:

Significantly higher incidences have been reported from the northern countries.

But now the numbers are declining, especially in the north. Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania report incidence declines of 40 to 50 points compared to the previous day.

In a week-on-week comparison, the minus is greatest in these four federal states.

In the meantime, all northern countries are also below the threshold of 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 7 days.

Before Christmas, the incidence in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was almost 400 and in Bremen and Lower Saxony almost 500.

235 corona deaths were reported to the RKI yesterday.

791 deceased have been registered within three days.

We regularly 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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