Jens Spahn said that since 12 April the number of recovered patients had been consistently higher than the number of new infections.
The infection rate has dropped to 0.7 – that is, each infected person passed the virus to fewer than one other.
In Germany 3,868 have died of Covid-19 – fewer than in Italy, Spain or France.
However, the number of fatalities is still rising in Germany, as is the number of infected health care workers.
