Sunday, 17 Jan 2021 08:23 PM MYT
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the state had massively restricted people’s basic rights in order to contain infections and avoid overwhelming hospitals. Around 1 million people in Germany had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases. Some 83.2 million people were living in the country at the end of 2020, data from the statistics office show.
Maas said the government was also restricting the rights of people who ran restaurants, cinemas, theatres and museums.