Figure 4.

Effectiveness of containment measures. The partial and extended shutdown measures induced different effects on the incidences in different age groups and federal state clusters. The change of the weekly reported new cases is normalized by the first day of each spreading period. In the northern and southwestern clusters, the partial shutdown decreased the numbers among younger age groups. The elderly group, and in the eastern states all age groups, kept rising in the weekly change of cases. Only the extended shutdown decreased the incidence among all age groups and states.