German health official warns trend in falling coronavirus cases could reverse

Germany's infection numbers appear to be stagnating at a level that is still too high, a top public health official said on Friday, warning a downward trend in recent weeks could reverse.

"We are standing possibly at a turning point again," Lother Wieler, the president of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases, told a weekly news conference.

"The national case number appear to be stagnating."