Coronavirus. over 400 thousand cases in Europe. In Germany 67 thousand infections, doubled in 7 days

2020-03-31T09:24:25.744Z

More than 67,000 cases of coronavirus infection have occurred in Germany. According to the online count of Zeit, made by crossing the data of the Robert Koch Institut (Rki) with those that gradually arrived from the local health facilities, the number of infections doubled in 7 days. The victims are 652. Among the cities, the highest number of infections is counted in Berlin, with 2581 cases, followed by Munich with 2501 cases. The toll is, as always, higher than the 'official' one of the Koch Institut, which reported 61,913 infections this morning, with a growth of 4615 cases compared to yesterday. For the Rki, the number of victims has grown from 128 units to 583. (AGI) Gey / BiaQuasi 800 thousand cases worldwide and over 37 thousand dead and 166 thousand recovered. The coronavirus mortality rate in Germany is currently 0.8%, but the president of the German Robert Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler, believes that this percentage "will go up" soon. The president repeated that the low number of victims depends on the fact that the disease was detected at an early stage and has been tested a lot (in the country 500 thousand tests are carried out per week, according to the Christian Drosten virolgo). "There is no country in the world that has as many places in intensive care for artificial respiration" as there is in Germany, in relation to its population - he added - That this may be enough in this epidemic is another matter ". Of the 61,013 positives electronically registered at the institute, 583 have so far been the victims.