The German economy "should" have recovered from the trough caused by coVID-19 and is recovering "relatively slowly," Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said Tuesday.


Weidmann told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that in the past few months Germany had experienced its worst recession since World War II.


"The good news is that the bottom should be behind us and things are getting better," he said. But recoveries from deep recessions are relatively slow."


The Bundesbank is the central bank of Germany, and Weidmann has been President since 2011.


During the coVID-19 outbreak, the German government "acted quickly" to protect German businesses and jobs, Mr. Weidmann said in an interview. If Germany saw a wave of bankruptcies this autumn, the government could provide further assistance.

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The German government in late March unveiled a 1.1 trillion euro economic rescue plan and earlier this month announced an additional 130 billion euros (1.03 trillion yuan) to boost the economy.


In order to prevent and control the epidemic, Germany shut down non-essential production and commercial activities in late March and gradually resumed work in late April. At present, people are still required to keep a social distance and most large events are banned.


According to AGence France-Presse, the relatively rapid easing of the epidemic in Germany and the government's massive economic support have boosted investor confidence.


However, clusters of infections have recently appeared in parts of Germany. As of the afternoon of August 21, 1331 employees of a meat processing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia had been confirmed infected with novel Coronavirus.


More than 189,000 new coVID-19 cases and 8,882 deaths have been confirmed in Germany, according to data released By the Robert Koch Institute for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. The number of confirmed cases has risen by 687 in the past 24 hours.


According to data from Robert Koch Research Institute on the 20th, the number of novel Coronavirus infections reached 1.79 on the same day, that is, the average number of infection per coronavirus patient was 1.79, a significant increase from 1.06 on the 19th. The cluster of infections in some areas has led to a rise in the number of basic infections, and the increase in coVID-19 cases nationwide will not occur, the institute said.