China News Agency, Berlin, March 5th (Reporter Peng Dawei) Data released by the German authority on the 5th showed that the number of people diagnosed with new crown pneumonia in the country has reached 400, a surge of 138 from the previous day. Despite the rapid development of the epidemic, the results of authoritative polls released on the same day showed that 76% of Germans are still “not worried or unconcerned” about the risk of infection of themselves or their families.
The data released by the Robert Koch Institute responsible for publishing the latest German epidemic data as of 15:00 local time on the 5th shows that of the 400 confirmed cases of infection, the Northwestern and Western states of Baden are the most distributed. There were 181 and 73 cases, respectively. The capital Berlin has increased to 13 cases. Of the 16 federal states in Germany, only the eastern Saxony-Anhalt remains undiagnosed.
Although the epidemic continued to develop rapidly, the latest authoritative poll "German Trends" released by German TV station on the same day showed that most people in Germany were not worried about being infected and believed that the situation was under official control.
76% of the Germans surveyed were not very worried or unconcerned about their or their family's risk of contracting new coronary pneumonia. This number is down from 89% last month. 17% of people felt “greatly worried” and 6% were “very worried”. Regarding the epidemic prevention work in German health and other departments, 66% of the respondents believe that the authorities have fully controlled the situation, a decrease of 16 percentage points from the previous month; 28% believe that the authorities have failed to control the situation. Satisfaction among the voters, the current Federal Health Minister Jens Span, who is participating in the ruling party ’s CDU vice chairman, has increased by 7 percentage points from last month to 51%.
In response to the people's daily response to the epidemic, 75% said they had washed their hands more frequently, 54% said they had not cancelled their trips or participated in large-scale activities, and 89% said they did not purchase a large amount of food as a reserve. (Finish)