Philip Hollobone
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(4 years, 1 month ago)
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Matt Hancock
Because our advice to everybody is to reduce unnecessary social contact to protect themselves.
Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
I commend the personal resilience of the Health Secretary during this crisis, and all the staff at Kettering General Hospital. Do we have any lessons to learn from the German experience, given that Germany has had five times as many confirmed cases, but only a quarter of the number of deaths?
Matt Hancock
I have discussed that point with my German counterpart, and I am afraid that I wish there was something we could learn because it is important. We think that the reason for the difference in ratio is that the early cases in Germany were largely people who had been skiing in northern Italy and therefore were more healthy, whereas the mortality of this disease is very strongly correlated with age.