The number of patients recorded by the Robert Koch Institute had risen by 45, with large clusters in the west and south, where one initial outbreak centred on a car supplier with a unit in Wuhan, where the infection was first detected.
Western Europe's most populous country, Germany has the second largest number of registered cases on the continent after Italy.
"These events show how fragile global supply chains are," he told Der Spiegel magazine. "But a world without global work sharing would be less successful ... We should protect while checking for vulnerabilities where we can bring more security into the supply chain." Lufthansa, Europe's largest airline group by fleet size, on Friday announced that it was slashing by half the number of flights it would operate in coming weeks as a result of the sudden slackening in demand.
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