Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans on Thursday to celebrate Easter quietly, to stop a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that it is now threatening younger people.
Merkel said in a video message that Germans need to reduce contacts and not travel unless absolutely necessary to curb the pandemic.
“It should be a quiet Easter, with those closest to you, with very reduced contact. I urge you to refrain from all non-essential travel,” Merkel asserted, adding this was the only way to help the doctors and nurses fighting the virus.
Merkel’s top aid Helge Braun had previously stated that the country must bring down coronavirus infections in the next few weeks or risk new virus mutations that are resistant to vaccines.
“We are in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic,” Braun told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “The next few weeks will determine whether we can foreseeably get the pandemic under control.”
Moreover, Braun said if the number of infections rises rapidly again, there is going to be a growing danger that the next virus mutation will become resistant to the vaccine.
“Then we would need new vaccines, then we would have to start vaccinating all over again,” he added.
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