New data has shown that London has a coronavirus death rate which is 15 times higher than Berlin.

Germany is already starting to lift their lockdown measures after having strict testing measure from the beginning.

The European country has also been including coronavirus deaths in their figures throughout, as long as the deceased tested positive for the virus - whereas the UK has only just started this method of recording cases.

It's been said that this is the reason for such a low death rate, and numbers released show how big the difference is.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the true number of deaths is as much as 54.6 per cent higher when accounting for deaths in care homes, hospices and private homes.

It would mean roughly 7,391 people would have died in London, if the same percentage increase was applied, according to MailOnline calculations.

England's capital has recorded 4,781 coronavirus deaths in hospitals since the worldwide pandemic began, killing 0.053 per cent of its nine million population.

However, Berlin's outbreak has recorded very little deaths in comparison.

The German city has recorded 137 covid-19 deaths in total - making up just 0.0036 per cent of its 3.8million population.

Its highest daily death tally was a mere 12 on April 16.

NHS England says London's first fatality was on March 6, whereas Berlin hadn't recorded its first death until March 21, two weeks after London.

Coronavirus national testing co-ordinator Professor John Newton said the UK has been worse affected by the virus than Germany because of "the way it arrived in England".

Speaking on LBC, Prof Newton compared Berlin with London, saying London is "so connected to the rest of the world".

"This is a very unpredictable virus... it arrives slightly differently," he said.

"The coronavirus really took hold in England because of the way it arrived. In Germany the virus has spread differently."

It comes as Germany faces the prospect of a second lockdown after seeing a rise in coronavirus infections and deaths.

The country has slowly been easing its lockdown by opening smaller shops in the last week, but could be closed again if the cases increase.

However some don't agree with Professor Newton.

Dr Joshua Moon, of University of Sussex's Science Policy Research Unit, said he couldn't understand Professor Newton's comments, but said: 'It seems like he’s arguing that London has maybe more influx of people from overseas or that it’s higher population density means that the virus spreads more easily.

'This does make some intuitive sense, more possible introductions of the disease into the population plus people living their lives in much closer proximity are both determinants of disease spread,' Dr Moon told MailOnline.

'However, the idea of it being the cause of London having 15 times more deaths per capita than Berlin makes more out of those differences that one would reasonably expect.'