BERLIN: Germany is poised to tighten a partial lockdown into April to halt an exponential spread of the coronavirus driven by variants.
To prevent any contagion at the workplace, companies would be required to provide at least two rapid tests a week to employees who are unable to work from home, under the draft rules. "It is very possible that we will have a similar situation over Easter to the one we had before Christmas, with very high case numbers, many severe cases and deaths, and hospitals that are overwhelmed," Lars Schaade, vice president of the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases, told reporters then.
Merkel and regional leaders agreed at the last round of talks that authorities would tighten the screws again if the incidence rate struck 100.Last week authorities in Hamburg said they would pull the"emergency brake" from Saturday after exceeding the 100-mark three days in a row.
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