The RKI publishes risk assessments, strategy documents, response plans, daily surveillance reports on COVID-19, and technical guidelines, and works with national and international public health authorities as channels for distributing communication. The government uses these information to make critical decisions during the outbreak. Germany is a highly federalized country, and thus the intermediate and local public health authorities are the people taking control of and adapting public health measures on the local level. National authorities facilitate nationwide exchange and negotiate standards and common procedures