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German Health Minister Jens Spahn said at a press conference that 150 infections with coronavirus have been confirmed as of Monday morning in Germany.
The confirmed cases were recorded in 10 out of Germany's 16 federal states. The most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, where a large number of people had caught the coronavirus during a Carnival event last week, confirmed 86 cases alone.
"People with symptoms should use the hotlines before visiting a doctor," said the minister. The risk level in Germany was set to "moderate".
Spahn did not consider it necessary to close German borders and stressed that the cancellation of major events or the closure of companies was generally not advisable.
"Dangerousness is not a simple number," Christian Drosten, director of the Institute of Virology at the Charite Berlin, an academic hospital in Germany, said at the press conference.
He also criticized scaremongering on social media as well as companies making profit with the fear of citizens.
