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“When you build mulled wine kiosks, waffle kiosks, it doesn’t match our consensus that [bus leidžiama tiekti] just take food and drink with you, ”he told parliament in an unusually emotional speech, referring to traditional German Christmas fairs.
“I am very sorry, but if we pay the price of 590 deaths per day, that is, in my opinion, unacceptable,” added the chancellor.
“I am so sorry in my heart.”
The appeal of the #Leopoldina it has clearly reached the Chancellor. An exceptionally emotional chancellor: pic.twitter.com/eLyX9jp7tU
– Sönnichsen Nativity (@bsagt) December 9, 2020
“We must do everything possible to avoid exponential growth,” he said.
“It just came to our attention then. We have been living with this virus for so many months, we have learned that there are effective means to combat it,” said the German Chancellor.
Although there was some time left before Christmas, Merkel asked the German people to be “very careful.”
“If we now have too many contacts and it turns out that it was last Christmas with the grandparents, then we did something wrong. Let’s avoid this mistake, “said the chancellor.
He acknowledged that distancing himself from others was “a bit uncharacteristic of people,” but that such actions “will not really destroy life.”
Merkel recalled that the goal remains the same, that is, 100,000 in seven days. the population would be 50 new cases. Now that number is much higher, around 140.
“Otherwise, the pandemic will fall from our hands over and over again,” he said. Although as of November 2. The restrictions imposed helped to halt the exponential growth of new cases, but failed to further reduce the spread of the infection.
“The number of contact persons is too large, the restriction of communication between people is insufficient,” said the chancellor.
There were 590 COVID-19 related deaths in Germany last day.
The Robert Koch Institute for Communicable Diseases also announced about 20,815 new cases of coronavirus infection on Wednesday.
Merkel, for her part, called for stricter restrictions on Wednesday to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
Germany weathered the first wave of the pandemic with relative ease, and when the second wave struck, the country did not impose as severe restrictions as most other major European countries. However, the second wave of the pandemic hit Germany harder than the first.
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