In a recent meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, the Minister of Interior Horst Seehofer declined a hand shake by Chancellor Angels Merkel, amid mounting fear over a potential outbreak for Corona virus.
Video footage featured Merkel as she was coming to sit down ahead of the cabinet meeting, and once she extended her hands for a shake with Seehofer, he told her that he is not intending to shake hands with any one over fears of an outbreak of the virus.
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Earlier today, it was reported that the number of confirmed Coronavirus infections now exceeds 200. About half of them were reported in North Rhine-Westphalia, where the second infection wave started only eight days ago.
At the Berlin Bundestag, Health Minister Jens Spahn said the epidemic had now reached Germany, but the country’s health system was well prepared for the fight against the virus. Spahn said there were restrictions in people’s lives already. It was the government’s goad to slow down the spread of the Coronavirus and to dam it as much as possible.
Minister Spahn asked the nation for prudence. “Sure, a new virus we are not experienced with is disturbing”, he conceded. Fear and worry were human reactions. “But our society has a lot of experience with all kinds of dangers”, Spahn stated. Later today, he will talk with the health ministers in Germany’s federal states.
Almost all federal states are affected. At the Virchow Clinic in Berlin, patients who might be infected formed a waiting line in front of an emergency admission established for that purpose.
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