Daily Trends of the Time-Dependent Reproduction Number (Rt) and the Growth Rate of Cumulative Cases in Bavarian and Non-Bavarian Landkreise (Counties) Before and After Bavaria Introduced Financial Penalties Against Lockdown Violations: Germany, March 15–May 11, 2020
Note. Dashed line = implementation of the intervention on March 20, 2020 (lagged by 4 d); band = 95% confidence intervals. Data shown in part a are the means of daily Rt for each group. Whereas Rt decreased in Bavarian counties, the graph illustrates a rather wax-and-wane pattern in the non-Bavarian areas. Part b shows the means of the daily growth rate in confirmed cases. The growth rate before the intervention was higher than the postintervention level in both groups.