The death rate (bouncing around at 1-percent with each hundred of infected) is mostly due to keeping the infected rate low, and getting retirees to limit guests and visitors.....along with avoiding public situations (shopping). A lot of Germans have friends or relatives who do the shopping and drop the groceries at the front-door.
In my local German ‘town’ (285,000)...the death count is 6 people, and roughly 250 infected. All six however, are over the age of 70.
Germany was at 2% yesterday. Most of Europe is in sad shape