How does Germany record a low Covid-19 mortality rate?
Germany had discovered its first few COVID-19 cases
by January 27, but thought they were little more than local threats that could
be easily managed.
Covid- 19 began to spread in Bavaria on 27th,
specifically in the auto parts manufacturer in Bavaria.
It transferred to a number of German cities.
The most recorded injuries were initially a cluster
of injuries that arose in Heinzberg as the virus spread there through a
secondary festival held in the city.
The first two deaths in Germany were recorded on
March 9th for a 89-year-old woman in Essen and a 78-year-old man in Heinzberg.
To date, the number of injured people has reached
more than 91,000 (according to the Robert Koch Institute today statistic)
throughout Germany.
Most of the injuries are concentrated in the
following states: Bayern, North Rhine, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and the death toll
did not exceed 1.5% of the injuries.
How Germany managed to reduce the number of deaths
despite the increasing number of injuries?
70% of the infected people not exceed sixty years
old, which is the opposite of those in Italy and Spain.
The capacity of health care systems in different
communities also has an influence on death rates. When the number of severely
ill patients exceeds the number of available intensive care beds and
ventilators, not all critically ill people can receive adequate treatment and
the number of deaths will increase.
This is evident in some regions in Italy, where
doctors reported that they've had to decide which patients with the best chance
of recovery can be put on a ventilator and who is left to die.
Germany has more than 40 thousand beds equipped with
a respirator, that is, more than 600 beds with a respirator per 100,000 people.
Despite all of this, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel did not hesitate to speak to her people, announcing that more than 70%
of the German people will be infected with the new Corona virus, which urged
her people to be patient with the new situation and acquiesce in the preventive
measures imposed by the country to limit the spread of the epidemic.
Although a complete health ban was not imposed
on all parts of Germany, but only five states in which the mayor of the same
state decided this decision for the authority of the state mayor to issue an
outbreak due to the outbreak of the epidemic in his state and the high number
of those affected, and the rest of the German states did not impose a complete
health ban so far.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was
satisfied with reducing the work and the percentage of daily work for workers
in the other states, completely closing nurseries, schools, universities,
government and private institutes from March 13 to April 19, closing libraries,
beauty salons, malls and gyms, and completely preventing visits to the elderly
residing in care homes The elderly, and the government imposed fines of up to
2,500 euros to collect more than two people in the streets and public places.
But Merkel saw that all these measures are not
sufficient, and she accelerated, at the request of the health authorities in
the country, to increase the numbers of microscopy early and quickly, as the
tests for the early detection of the Corona virus reached a number of 500,000
tests per week, which was boasted by the German Health Minister Jens Young. In
the media, it is one of the largest numbers that no country can ever do.
Likewise, some European countries have requested
assistance from Germany to send some of the infected people who are in
difficult conditions due to the Corona virus, and from the point of Germany's
assistance to neighboring and friendly countries, Germany has received a number
of the injured from Italy and France through the A-310 medical evacuation plane,
which is a plane The German army is equipped with an intensive care unit and
the injured have been distributed to several German hospitals.
The German chancellor also approved a proposal for a
website tracking system that aims to track people with corona and is currently
being tested in Berlin, and Merkel indicated that she will use the application
on herself if the experiment is proven successful, and aims to improve the
follow-up of cases in contact with the injured.
Will this measure accept the approval or opposition
of the German people, who are inherently different from other peoples such as
China and Korea in terms of the German people adhering to their right to
privacy and non-tracking? This is what we will see if the German government
recommends it.
Corona Hospital: Will Berlin succeed in returning
the miracle of China to build a hospital for treating Corona cases within days?
German Chancellor Merkel has approved a decision
submitted by the Minister of Health of the State of Berlin Delek Callits to set
up a Corona Hospital on the Berlin Exhibition Square in cooperation with the
German army to accommodate up to 1000 people with Corona virus in anticipation
of increasing numbers for the coming period.
The German Robert Koch Institute expects an increase
in the number of people infected in Germany in the coming days, and that the
proliferation of the Corona virus will remain for long periods of time, with
the hope that the awareness of the German people and the strength of the health
system in the country of lower mortality is not the magic solution that Germany
found and was secretive as some believe.