{"id":203790,"date":"2020-03-12T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203790"},"modified":"2020-03-19T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T20:43:23","slug":"60-to-70-of-the-german-population-will-be-infected-by-the-coronavirus-merkel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203790","title":{"rendered":"Merkel: 60% to 70% of the German population will be infected by the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Elliot Smith \u2013 CNBC March 11, 2020<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Merkel said Berlin would spend whatever was necessary to contain the virus in Germany, but declined to commit to providing direct material aid to virus-stricken Italy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 121,000 cases and 4,368 deaths have now been confirmed around the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Merkel-says-she-will-quit-as-leader-of-the-CDU-in-the-coming-days-before-standing-down-at-the-end-of-her-term-in-2021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-178371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Merkel-says-she-will-quit-as-leader-of-the-CDU-in-the-coming-days-before-standing-down-at-the-end-of-her-term-in-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Merkel-says-she-will-quit-as-leader-of-the-CDU-in-the-coming-days-before-standing-down-at-the-end-of-her-term-in-2021.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Merkel-says-she-will-quit-as-leader-of-the-CDU-in-the-coming-days-before-standing-down-at-the-end-of-her-term-in-2021-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">German Chancellor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/10000396\">Angela Merkel<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has said that up to 70% of the German population will likely contract the coronavirus, suggesting that the government\u2019s priority is about \u201cslowing its spread.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Germany has so far reported 1,565 cases of the virus and three deaths, according to\u00a0Johns Hopkins\u00a0University, and the chancellor has come under fire for her government\u2019s handling of the response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWhen the virus is out there, the population has no immunity and no therapy exists, then 60 to 70% of the population will be infected,\u201d Merkel told a news conference in Berlin on Wednesday, according to Reuters. The country has over 82 million citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe process has to be focused on not overburdening the health system by slowing the virus\u2019s spread. It\u2019s about winning time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has since been quoted by CTK news agency as saying that Merkel\u2019s statements \u201ccause panic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Merkel said Berlin would spend whatever was necessary to contain the virus in Germany, but declined to commit to providing direct material aid to virus-stricken Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Confirmed cases in Italy have surpassed 10,000 with deaths spiking to 631, and Merkel told reporters that her government would play its part in combating the fallout from the epidemic, insisting a proposed European Union package of fiscal measures would not fail because of Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 121,000 cases and 4,368 deaths have now been confirmed around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/03\/11\/angela-merkel-most-people-will-get-the-coronavirus.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the World Health Organisation confirms coronavirus a \u201cpandemic\u201d, Germany\u2019s Merkel warns that more than half of Germans could be infected  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":178371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203814,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203790\/revisions\/203814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}