Coronavirus: "We do not know why Germany has 48 dead and Spain 1,000"

Fernando Simón confesses that he cannot explain these data, when both countries have the same Covid-19 infections

When you are reading this information, there are 16,290 confirmed Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Germany , compared to 18,077 in Spain . Similar figures in the number of infections, but very different in the number of deaths. While in Spain at this time there are already more than a thousand deaths, in Germany that figure has not yet exceeded that of 50 deaths. A contrast of figures that, according to Fernando Simón , director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies , "have no explanation."

"I cannot explain it. We are making an effort to try to understand what is happening in Germany. We are currently contacting different authorities in European countries to understand these figures, but daily and internal activity makes it very difficult to achieve fluency in the conversations between European countries ”, explained Fernando Simón at the press conference held this Friday, after the Covid-19 coronavirus follow- up meeting .