this question from fiona dennis.r deaths than here in the uk?" i think the key here is reported cases and it comes down to testing. in germany there are 60,000 reported cases and 30 also death. the real difference here is germany has been very aggressive about testing in its population. they have done tens of thousands more tests then we have in the uk which means they are catching a lot of the cases that are mild or even without symptoms so the numbers are higher. ours are artificially low because there has been a decision here to only test people who are sick and hospitalised. i think the uk and germany are in similar places in their epidemic, in that we have far more cases then are reported. what do you base that on, when you say you think we have a similar number of cases? germany is trying to test everyone affected whereas here testing is only limited to those people in hospital. we know for example one in five to one in six people get sick enough with covid—19 to be hospitalised. those are the only ones who wil

this question from fiona dennis.ey here is reported cases and it comes down to testing. in germany there are 60,000 reported cases and 30 also death. —— 430 deaths. the real difference here is germany has been very aggressive about testing in its population. they have done tens of thousands more tests then we have in the uk which means they are catching a lot of the cases that are mild or even without symptoms so the numbers are higher. ours are artificially low because there has been a decision here to only test people who are sick and hospitalised. i think the uk and germany are in similar places in their epidemic, in that we have far more cases then are reported. what do you base that on, when you say you think we have a similar number of cases? germany is trying to test everyone affected whereas here testing is only limited to those people in hospital. we know for example one in five to one in six people get sick enough with covid—19 to be hospitalised. those are the only ones who will be tested in the uk, wherea