As many as ’60 to 70 per cent’ of Germans will be infected with the deadly coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned today, as the contagion threatened to rip through Europe.
Addressing a parliamentary group meeting of her Christian Democratic Union party in Berlin today, Merkel said that 58 million Germans could contract the disease if it spiralled out of control, according to insiders who spoke to newspaper Bild.
But Health Minister Jens Spahn pointed out during the meeting that 80 per cent of all infected patients would have almost no symptoms.
The infection is now transmitting between humans in nearly 30 countries across Europe, the World Health Organization has warned today.