The German government devised a national pandemic plan for Covid-19 by combining their generic preparedness plans with other other disease-specific plans and documents, such as MERS. Such a plan allowed the government to act quickly and preserve time as no time was wasted on disputes related to governance, accounting,  or costs

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Although the German government wasn't able to prevent Covid-19 from entering the country, they were able to prevent the virus from severely affecting the country through two factors:
- National Pandemic Plan
- Federal cooperation with the Robert Koch Institute


Preventative Measure from Germany during the Covid-19 Pandemic


Our World in Data. 2020. Emerging COVID-19 Success Story: Germany’S Strong Enabling Environment. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-germany    
   Accessed 14 July 2020.

Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment

Germany's National Pandemic Plan

The RKI publishes risk assessments, strategy documents, response plans, daily surveillance reports on COVID-19, and technical guidelines, and works with national and international public health authorities as channels for distributing communication. The government uses these information to make critical decisions during the outbreak. Germany is a highly federalized country, and thus the intermediate and local public health authorities are the people taking control of and adapting public health measures on the local level. National authorities facilitate nationwide exchange and negotiate standards and common procedures

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