Some news from
Germany:
- 2,931 positive tests last week (CW27), second lowest. CW 24 was the lowest, right before the quite major outbreak in CW25 in a meat producing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, among others). As a comparison, the highest ever was ~37k in CW14.
- 494,146 tests last week, most ever
- 0.6% positivity rate last week, lowest ever. As a comparison, the highest ever was 9.0% in CW14.
- Estimated capacity for tests up slightly to almost 1.2 million per week
- "Average" test positivity rate (i.e. all positive tests vs. all tests) is down to ~3.6%
- R0-7 days pretty stable in the past ~two weeks, ~0.8 on average
See also the daily report (English):
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ...chte/2020-07-08-en.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Or the bigger daily report (German):
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ...chte/2020-07-08-de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
No reason to think everything is fine, but I feel like the major outbreak(s) in CW25 did not do all that much lasting damage. Average daily deaths are also still trending downwards ever so slightly (approx. ~8 per day on average right now).