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Table 1 Percentage of COVID-19 cases by federal states in Germany as of August 4, 2020

Federal States	Population (2020)^a	Total Cases^b	%
Baden-Württemberg	11 100 394	37 455	0.34
Bavaria	13 124 737	51 279	0.39
Berlin	3 669 491	9 367	0.26
Brandenburg	2 521 893	3 579	0.14
Bremen	681 202	1 787	0.26
Hamburg	1 847 253	5 444	0.29
Hesse	6 288 080	12 199	0.19
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	1 608 138	880	0.05
Lower Saxony	7 993 608	14 634	0.18
North Rhine-Westphalia	17 947 221	49 727	0.28
Rhineland-Palatinate	4 093 903	7 583	0.19
Saarland	986 887	2 886	0.29
Saxony	4 071 971	5 548	0.14
Saxony-Anhalt	2 194 782	2 034	0.09
Schleswig-Holstein	2 903 773	3 494	0.12
Thuringia	2 133 378	3 385	0.16

Sources:^aGesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes. Population by sex and age [cited 2020 04 August]. Available from: http://www.gbe-bund.de
^bRobert Koch Institute. COVID-19: Fallzahlen in Deutschland und weltweit: Fallzahlen in Deutschland, Stand: 04.08.2020 [cited 2020 04 August]. Available from: https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Fallzahlen.html

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