It was made official yesterday afternoon/evening. Even the Leipzig page did not have anything on their homepage yesterday evening.
If you have a trip planned into the East or South of Germany in the next 3 weeks - cancel it.
That is the Corona dashboard of Germany right now broken down into areas:
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4
Berlin ist still dark red - but the surrounding already is pink or violett!
I live in an area of Bavaria that has lower numbers than the most of the other areas - but our hospitals are already full and normal surgeries are postphoned. You really see the numbers climbing since weeks...