(Combating new crown pneumonia) German diagnoses exceed 900, first citizen dies due to new crown pneumonia
China News Agency, Berlin, March 8th (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of 15:00 local time, the number of people diagnosed with new crown pneumonia in Germany has increased to 902, 107 more than the previous day. German media quoted the Egyptian health department as saying that a 60-year-old German national died in Egypt due to infection with new crown pneumonia. This is the first time a German citizen has died of the disease since the outbreak.
According to data released by the Robert Koch Institute of the German Federal Disease Control Agency on the same day, 398 of the 902 confirmed patients were located in North Rhine-Westphalia, the worst-affected state, and 182 and 172 were infected in Bavaria and Bavaria, respectively. The number of people infected in the capital, Berlin, has increased to 40. Eastern Saxony-Anhalt remains the only federal state without a confirmed case.
A German television station quoted a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Health spokesman that the aforementioned German man travelled from Luxor, Egypt ’s famous tourist city, to another tourist destination, Gourdegues, on March 6. Upon arriving in Gourdegues, he began to have fever and was detected at the hospital with a new crown virus. It is reported that the man was treated in the intensive care unit, but at the same time he refused to accept the referral arrangement. Since then, his health has continued to deteriorate and he died on March 8, local time. It is unclear when and where he was infected.
Except for the above-mentioned German citizens who died overseas due to infections mentioned above, as of now, there have been no cases of death from new crown pneumonia in Germany.
In response to the current situation of the German epidemic prevention and control, German Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn called for the suspension of all events with more than 1,000 participants on the same day, and hoped that the public would "whether it is necessary to visit night clubs and participate in Family birthday parties, or social events. "
He emphasized that the authorities' primary goal was to slow the spread of the virus, "because the slower the virus spreads, the better our health system can respond to."
Christian Seifert, president of the German Football League, said on the same day that he still hopes to carry out the remaining matches of the Bundesliga this season as scheduled. Until mid-May, the German Football Association will hold meetings with various clubs to discuss countermeasures. According to German media analysis, if they insist on holding follow-up matches, the Bundesliga may face the situation where there will be no live audience. (Finish)