A coronavirus is taking a far greater top than the government is admitting we visit the city of too far where an undertaker tells us hes never been that busy. Plus the german dance collectives that proves prejudice is often the biggest barrier. Shows that having down syndrome or being in a wheelchair an obstacle to the art of. Im good how else was welcome to the program the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the corona virus pandemic to claim many more lives in the country at a News Conference the president of the hold at Caucus Institute go to a villa said germany have managed to stabilize the rate of new infections from restrictions in the past weeks but he stressed the case sloth remains too high and said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections and care homes where christian number numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he warned that hospitals are coming under growing strain. In some regions were seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacities and as a result for having to perspire of surgeries or treatments. We also see the number of severe cases in deaths rising from week to week and since both always occur after a certain time eric we must expect many more. Lets go straight to our Political Correspondent Thomas Sparrow thomas so today there were 479 deaths as the 2nd highest number so far since the pandemic began but that is to be expected isnt it when case numbers are higher or does it have a different significance well you may think that a higher number in cases comes hand in hand with more deaths but it is not necessarily always the case you may remember for example the 1st wave of the pandemic here in germany germany was badly affected during that 1st wave but if you compared germanys death rate with that of other European Countries you found that germany had i loathe the death rate so it does not necessarily always mean that a higher caseload means also death rate in this particular case German Authorities are indeed concerned particularly concerned about the number of deaths you already mentioned the number of deaths in the last 24 hours and we already reached this week over 1300 deaths and this is certainly one very important element that authorities have been discussing what it comes to introducing new restrictions new lockdown measures well german chancellor Angela Merkel probably have those
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