Angela Merkel: up to 70% of the population will be infected with coronavirus
up To 70% of German citizens will be infected with coronavirus, which is currently spreading around the world, said Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding that, since currently there is no cure, you need to focus on slowing its spread.
"the population has no immunity and there is no therapy, so 60 to 70% of the population will be infected," she said at a press conference in Berlin. "The process should be aimed at, so as not to overload the health care system by slowing down the spread of the virus ... we are Talking about the winnings in time."
According to the Robert Koch Institute in Germany was 1296 cases of infection and two cases of death cases.
According to Dr. Richard Hatchett from the UK, which is developing vaccines from COVID-19, the coronavirus is a major public health threat since the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago. He said that vaccine delivery will take up to 18 months, and its cost will amount to 1.5 billion pounds.
as of the evening of March 10 the number of infected with the coronavirus COVID-19 worldwide exceeded 118 thousand people. On the planet for more than 100 countries, where he found a virus among them, and Ukraine. More than 64 thousand people around the world have recovered from the disease, provoked by a novel coronavirus, while the number of deaths March 10 exceeds 4.2 thousand.