Should it be to 13 or to 60 year old belgium has the highest code in 1000. 00 infection rate per capita in europe we take a look inside a hospital straining to cope. Im married to evanston welcome to the program here in germany the number of people who have died from cope at 19 has now surpassed 10000 this follows a sharp spike in the number of new cases in recent weeks with a record 14000 new infections reported just in the past 24 hours Health Officials are warning that the country faces a very serious situation. A grim milestone painful for every family it has touched germany has become the 6th european country to reach 10000 cobe in 1000 deaths after a peak in mid april the daily death toll was much lower over the summer for most of july august and September Corona deaths in any 24 hour period were in single figures in the last 2 weeks the mortality rate has begun to rise sharply but there are hopes it may not return to the level it reached earlier this year we had very high death toll in the springtime especially for the elderly and now we have more rate is higher in the younger population and that explains why the more talent you read is lower because younger people do not succumb to 19 they usually get sick sometimes also very severe is severely sick however the usually do not die compared with some other countries fewer people in germany have died from the disease the number of deaths per 1000000 of population is 120. 00 neighboring france are seen more than 4 times that death rate meanwhile china and india have reported much lower numbers of fatalities by head of population those figures show germany may have dealt well with the virus so far but infections are also rising again more steeply than deaths and experts are increasingly concerned as they look towards the coming months. We dont know how the inspection situation will develop we have to assume that the number of serious cases will increase and that the number of deaths will also rise. If that assumption proves correct many more funerals will have to be held under the shadow of covert 19. Well with me in the studio now is d. W. Political correspondent tuns brandt hello to you hans so 10000 dead in germany from covert 19 thats 10000 families who are suffering what are the implications of germany passing this milestone of course you can say is just a symbolic number