Two German counties have reported zero cases of the Coronavirus, a sign of success as the country fights to get the disease under control within its borders.
According to the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s infectious disease agency, both Goslar in the center and Friesland in the northwest on Tuesday had an average of zero cases per 100,000 residents for the last seven days.
After that, the next best was the county of Vorpommern-Ruegen, in the northeast, with a rate of 1.3.
Nationwide, Germany has a rate of around 22.9 cases per 100,000 people over seven days. That’s a marked improvement from several weeks ago when the number was routinely over 100 and individual districts had numbers around 300 or more.
However, the numbers were not infallible. Data sometimes took a while to be crunched and can be out of date.
Thus, while national health authorities said Goslar was at zero, the local health authority provides a number of 2.2, noting that there were no new cases reported on Tuesday, but 28 active cases being tracked.
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But in Friesland, county official Sven Ambrosy said the low number was attributable to thorough contact tracing.
“For months, we’ve had relatively low and stable incidence numbers here in Friesland, which has been falling the past few days.’’
The third wave of infections has been abating in Germany amid rising numbers of vaccinations, which became open to everyone aged 12 and up on Monday.
The country was pushing to get the numbers under control before nationwide lockdown rules expire at the end of the month, but there were fears a fourth wave could return after the summer.
