German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that a dramatic explosion in the Coronavirus infections number could force the country to stay under lockdown until April, according to Bild.
We need 8 to 10 more weeks of tough measures,” German newspaper Bild quoted Merkel as saying during an internal meeting of her Christian-Democrats party (CDU).
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On other hand, Germany tightened a national lockdown last week and extended it until the end of January amid fears that the more transmissible variant of the virus first discovered in Britain may put additional strain on struggling hospitals.
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Also, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases reported 12,802 new coronavirus cases. The COVID-19 death toll rose by 891 according to the RKI, bringing the overall total of deaths to 41,577.
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