Coronavirus: Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer In Germany Commits Suicide

A 54-year-old Christian Democrat politician and Hessian Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer committed suicide amid the coronavirus epidemic.

Schäfer leaves his wife and two children on earth as his body was found on Saturday morning next to the tracks of the ICE, the German superfast train, near Hochheim. And according to the governor of the Land, Volker Bouffier, it could be the first political suicide linked to the coronavirus epidemic.

At the time of this report, Germany, an 83 million population country has recorded 58,247 cases of the deadly coronavirus COVID-19 with 455 death.