FILE - In this March 25, 2020, file photo, an Italian Air Force plane carrying two patients from Italy believed to have COVID-19, lands at Leipzig Airport, Germany. In the rare position of having beds to spare, German hospitals have taken in dozens of patients from Italy and France. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP, File)
April 1, 2020
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Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus
BERLIN (AP) — Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the virus that was causing an unusual respiratory disease in central China.