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by ThePhysicist 2281 days ago
I don’t think so, have a look at the official guidelines for reporting Covid-19 cases (in German):

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

Basically every patient that shows symptoms of pneumonia gets tested for Covid-19 now, as well as all persons that were in direct contact with such a patient. Currently about 360,000 tests are done per week in Germany, next week more than 500,000 are projected. No country in the world tests more people per capital currently, so I really don’t think the numbers are underreported.