Germany keeps struggling to contain the spread of coronavirus. Latest report from Robert Koch Institute shows that there are 133,830 COVID-19 cases in the country. The virus has already killed 3,868 people.
While all the 16 federal states are affected, the incidence (cases per 100,000) of COVID-19 is highest in Bavaria (276), Baden-Wuerttemberg (240), Saarland (228) and Hamburg (218).
Of all the reported coronavirus cases in Germany, 48% are male and 52% are female. Among notified cases, 1,071 were children under 5 years of age (1%), 2,638 children aged 5 to 14 years (2%), 90,422 persons aged 15 to 59 years (68%), 25,797 persons aged 60 to 79 years (19%) and 13,671 persons aged 80 years and older (10%). The median age of cases is 50 years.
At least 87% of the people killed by coronavirus in Germany are aged 70 years or older.
The latest report confirms that COVID-19 related outbreaks in nursing homes and hospitals continue to rise. In some of these outbreaks, the number of deaths is relatively high.
The common symptoms displayed by people infected with coronavirus in Germany are cough (51%), fever (42%) and rhinorrhoea (21%). Pneumonia was reported in 2,642 cases (3%).
The good news is that approximately 81,800 people have recovered from their coronavirus infection.
Distribution of the laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-cases per federal state in Germany as on 17/4/2020
Baden-Wuerttemberg 26.543
Bavaria 36.027
Berlin 4.945
Brandenburg 2.120
Bremen 556
Hamburg 4.005
Hesse 6.705
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 634
Lower Saxony 8.442
North Rhine-Westphalia 27.030
Rhineland-Palatinate 5.211
Saarland 2.254
Saxony 4.048
Saxony-Anhalt 1.279
Schleswig-Holstein 2.349
Thuringia 1.682
Total 133.830