In Germany's case the main explanation from lead virologists is that they are testing much more and were lucky to catch it early. Germany had from the beginnin

In Germany's case the main explanation from lead virologists is that they are testing much more and were lucky to catch it early. Germany had from the beginning a capacity of about 100k tests per week. Now they are increasing that. So in conclusion, for Germany the number of infections is a bit closer to reality, where in Italy and Spain that number is/was much more far off.