An Italian priest, German fines and RTE's 'median'

Italian parishioners collected money for their parish priest to have a ventilator. As soon as the priest received it he insisted in giving it to a younger person infected with Covid-19

In Germany there is a despute among the various federal states as to what will happen this year's Abitur, Leaving Cert.

In the state of North Rhine Westfalia any group making up more than two people will be fined €200, those visiting nursing homes will have to cough up €200 and those picknicking in public will have to pay €250. Publicans and restauranteurs who break the law will be fined €5,000.

Yesterday the total number of people tested positive for Covid-19 in Germany was 31,991 and 41 have died from the virus.

One million German jobs have been lost.

Every evening RTE Television shows the CMO press conference. A word that is used on every occasion is 'median'. RTE should explain what the word means and what is the difference between median and average.

On this day in 1347 Dominican saint, philosopher, theologian and Doctor of the Church, Catherine of Siena was born.

And as to what the median means. But what does that tell the viewer?

The median is the middle value in a list of numbers eg if the numbers are 1, 5, 3,2,7 the median 3. Why? You put the numbers in ascending order and then the median is the middle one.