Here excess mortality is also being looked at. It started to rise in December/January, before the official arrival of the virus.
Covid deaths only seem to account for half of the excess.
Its not unusual for the excess mortality to rise at that time because of the common influenza. But if you pay attention to the previous years and this year, you can see, that the influenza season of 2020 had been very calm, with only few excess deaths, while this year, in the weeks after the influenza season ended the excess mortality suddenly jumped up and that much stronger than during a influenza.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
Just look at the first plot on this page for comparison to the past two years, including the rather bad influenza season of 2018. Usually, the influenza season is always over in calendar week 16 and only little excess mortality is observed compared to the 25-year baseline.
In 2020, mortality is up and rising in CW 16, after the really week influenza season already ended to be prominent in CW 8.
In other plots, you can see, how the total excess mortality of the year is mostly coming from the first three months - this year the numbers started climbing rapidly in April.
The data of that page is far from perfect, because of weird federalism, only one state and Berlin take part in the statistic. Things would look far worse for the German plots, if lower saxony and NRW would be counted as well for excess mortality, alone Wolfsburg is an extreme case there. Only relatively few cases in the 100,000 citizen city, but a high number of deaths because of a single institution having a local outbreak.
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In preparation of a restart of production, Volkswagen is planning to project messages and animations on the southern facade of their iconic power plant from today evening on.
The power plant sits right opposite of the main train station of Wolfsburg on the other side of the canal, you can easily see it from the main east-west street of Wolfsburg or from the highest point of Wolfsburg, the world war memorial on top of the Klieversberg.