Explainer: Tracking coronavirus 'reproduction rate' as lockdowns ease

CORONAVIRUS | Global alarm was sounded on Monday over a potential second wave of coronavirus infections after Germany reported that the reproduction rate of the pathogen had risen above one, indicating the disease was again spreading just days after the first tentative steps were taken there to reopen the economy.

The following explains what a virus reproduction rate is and why it is important in understanding the implications of ending economic lockdowns aimed at containing the spread....