{"id":148290,"date":"2021-01-05T23:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/germany-agrees-to-extend-covid-lockdown-until-jan-31\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:14:38","slug":"germany-agrees-to-extend-covid-lockdown-until-jan-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/germany-agrees-to-extend-covid-lockdown-until-jan-31\/","title":{"rendered":"#Germany agrees to extend COVID lockdown until Jan. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Germany agrees to extend COVID lockdown until Jan. 31<\/strong>”
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BERLIN \u2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she has agreed with state governors to extend the country\u2019s current lockdown by three weeks until Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

Merkel said they also are tightening curbs on social<\/a> contacts, in line with measures imposed at the beginning of the pandemic in March. And they called for new restrictions on movement for people living in areas with particularly high infection rates.<\/p>\n

The decision came as new coronavirus cases and deaths are running at stubbornly high levels, and officials remain uncertain what effect the Christmas and New Year holidays have had on the situation.<\/p>\n

Germany launched a nationwide partial shutdown on Nov. 2, closing restaurants, bars, leisure and sports facilities. That failed to reduce infection figures, and the current lockdown \u2014 which closed nonessential shops and schools, and further limited social contacts \u2014 took effect Dec. 16. It was initially due to run through Jan. 10.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s disease control center reported 944 more COVID-19 deaths.<\/p>\n

Vaccinations in Germany and the rest of the 27-nation European Union started over a week ago. In Germany, a nation of 83 million, nearly 265,000 vaccinations had been reported by Monday, the Robert Koch Institute said.<\/p>\n

Opposition politicians and even some within Germany\u2019s governing coalition have criticized the EU\u2019s cautious advance ordering of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine \u2014 the only one so far cleared for use in EU nations. The EU\u2019s medical regulator is also evaluating a vaccine by Moderna.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s health minister has repeatedly said that the vaccinations are progressing as expected and that the slow start is because mobile teams are first going to nursing homes to vaccinate the most vulnerable, which takes more time than inviting people to mass vaccination centers.<\/p>\n

Still, in a nod to the heavy pressure, Health Minister Jens Spahn said he has asked the country\u2019s agency in charge of vaccinations if the second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could be delayed in order to be able to vaccinate more people right away with a first shot. Britain has embraced such a plan with its vaccinations, but the move is being hotly debated by scientists and governments around the world.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s new infections remain at more than twice the level of 50 per 100,000 residents over seven days, which the government wants to reach. In part because of lower testing and delayed reporting, it\u2019s not yet clear what effect the Christmas holidays will have on Germany\u2019s new coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths.<\/p>\n

Germany has reported 35,518 virus-related deaths overall.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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