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German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the coming months will be very tough, amid the daily increase in the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany: 8,685 in the last 24 hours, Agerpres writes, citing EFE.
“We have very, very difficult months ahead of us,” Merkel said Sunday night at a conference with leaders of the conservative parliamentary group in the state, Bild reported Monday.
“Things cannot continue like this,” insisted the German chancellor, who said that given the growing number of cases, she said large-scale events should be abandoned, at least until February. in outdoor spaces. At the same time, Merkel blamed the increase in the number of infections during travel during the holidays.
Bild said that although Merkel never explicitly referred to a second “lockdown”, she was very firm in her belief that the virus could not be controlled “by simple methods.”
According to data published this Monday by the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has increased by 8,685 in the last 24 hours, reaching a total of 437,866. Twenty-four people have died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, with a total of 10,056 since the start of the pandemic.
Editor: Iulia Iancu
