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Altmaier said Germany should be careful to relax restrictions too quickly.
“If we don’t want days with 50,000 new infections, as was the case in France a few weeks ago, we have to see through this and not constantly speculate on what measures can be relaxed again,” he told Bild am Sonntag.
“All the countries that lifted their restrictions too early have so far paid a high price in terms of human lives lost.”
His comments echoed those of other German political leaders. Among others, Health Minister Jens Spahn told an online event for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party on Saturday that difficult weeks, possibly even months, remain.
The German president of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, warned of a possible shortage of beds and staffing problems in German hospitals.
“My forecast is that we will have to talk about more restrictions instead of easing,” he told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.
German police fired water cannons during an anti-blockade demonstration in Frankfurt on Saturday and eventually broke up the meeting because rules such as wearing masks and social distancing were not observed.
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