Berlin: Defending Germany’s health measures amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the second lockdown could be a wave-breaker.
If we keep this up for a month with all consistency, it can be a wave-breaker in this second wave, Xinhua news agency quoted the Chancellor as saying at a press conference on Monday.
She added that this of course means four weeks of giving up many things that make life beautiful.
After confirmed cases reached a new daily record of more than 19,000 on October 31, Germany’s federal and state governments agreed to tighten restrictions on daily life such as closure of restaurants and bars for November.
Merkel warned that many infections could no longer be clearly retraced.
In 75 per cent of cases in Germany, it was no longer possible to say where a person became infected with with the disease, according to the Chancellor.
On Monday, Covid-19 infections in Germany increased by 12,097 within a day to a total of 545,027, according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the federal government agency for disease control and prevention. The death toll increased by 49 to 10,530.