This, combined with a more forgiving distribution of infections, might account for the lower case fatality rate, says Matthias Stoll, a professor of medicine at the University of Hanover. Backlinks from other websites and blogs are the lifeblood of our site and are our primary source of new traffic. Data from South Korea supports this hypothesis. As a result, the ratio of people dying to people diagnosed is artificially high.

We will see peaks and troughs on those graphs as we go forward.”. Do grandchildren meet more frequently with grandparents? In Italy it is 63; in Germany it is just 46. But the study from Gangelt, in Heinsberg district, suggests the outbreak is much greater than official figures show. The birth rate for Germany in 2019 was 9.405 births per 1000 people, a 0.08% decline from 2018. The true death rate of COVID-19 is unknown because of the way the virus is being tracked around the world. Welcome to WIRED UK. Germany’s figures put it way above the European average of 11.5 beds per 100,000 people. At the time, only 2,000 cases had been confirmed by laboratory tests. Print + Digital Only £2 an issue. Do Italians kiss each other on the cheeks more often than Germans?

However, health care experts typically can rely on.

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“We are really still at the start of the outbreak – there's still a lot of time for things to change,” says Michael Head, senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton. China has almost eliminated Covid-19. Germany's coronavirus death rate is around 10 times lower than the rate calculated using official figures, according to an antibody surveillance scheme. Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of death by cancer, at 20 % of all cancer deaths. In your inbox every weekday at 12pm UK time. But the experts - who analysed blood samples in one small town where the country's outbreak began - claim the real death rate is around 0.37 per cent. Lothar Wieler, the president of the Robert Koch Institute, told journalists that German laboratories can conduct 160,000 coronavirus tests every week. The biggest myths, busted, World of Warcraft perfectly predicted our coronavirus panic, ✈️ Flight data shows the huge scale of Covid-19, Follow WIRED on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. YES.

But the official case count stands at 165,759 while 6,800 patients have died - a death rate of around 4 per cent. Decimals affect ranking. YES.