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The Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s leading public health body monitoring and advising how to tackle the coronavirus, has said it is revising its “R” evaluation, or reproduction rate, which is the number of people an individual infected with coronavirus infects, after much confusion.
It will now release a weekly R value instead, which takes into account all the dips and rises in registered cases in a week and most importantly takes into account the regional differences. The new R value is being referred to as the geglätterte or “smoothed” R.
Slovenia opened its borders on Friday after declaring an end to its coronavirus epidemic, AFP reports, despite new infections.
The government opened borders for all EU citizens, while non-EU citizens will have to stay in quarantine.
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