FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 file photo, the traditional Christmas lights shine over closed shops in downtown Vienna, Austria. Nations are struggling to reconcile cold medical advice with a holiday tradition that calls for big gatherings in often poorly ventilated rooms, where people chat, shout and sing together, providing an ideal conduit for a virus that has killed over 350,000 people in Europe so far. FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept.
FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, below, wears a face mask as she attends a parliament session about German government's policies to combat the spread of the coronavirus and COVID-19 disease at the parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany.
Yet the desire for contact with family is such that all the horrible realities can be briefly sidelined. In France, it took a letter addressed to Santa Claus to put it in perspective. People are currently barred from visiting other households in much of the U.K and there are travel limits to high-infection areas.
“We must learn from the summer and not repeat the same mistakes," she said. "Relaxing too fast and too much risks a third wave after Christmas." “It is about hundreds of thousands, millions of meetings of 10 people,” he warned. "And the impact can be enormous."
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