Merkel to save Christmas with curbs as German virus crisis worsens

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The proposed restrictions will come into force from Nov 4 until the end of the month. FMTNews

A man undergoes a coronavirus test at Central Station in Cologne on Friday.

Schools, daycares and shops will remain open, but hotels will be allowed to offer overnight stays only for “necessary and expressedly non-tourist purposes”. “Family and friends should be allowed to meet under corona-conditions over Christmas. This requires a common effort now, just like in spring,” it added.

The country coped relatively well with the first coronavirus wave earlier in the year but numbers have risen rapidly in recent weeks, as they have across the continent. But Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned that Germany was seeing “exponential growth” in case numbers and would probably reach “20,000 new infections per day” by the end of the week.Two hard-hit districts in Bavaria have already gone back into lockdown, with schools, kindergartens and nurseries closed and people needing a valid reason to leave their homes.

While there is no shortage of hospital beds or ventilators for now, the “much bigger problem” is a lack of medical staff to cope with a potential surge in intensive care patients, Uwe Janssens of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine told the Funke media group.

 

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