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Germany imposes strict COVID-19 restrictions after spike in cases
A man crosses tram rails in Frankfurt, Germany, before curfew on Saturday, April 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Germany is imposing another round of strict COVID-19 restrictions.
On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the public to accept nationwide pandemic restrictions as she hopes to curb rising infection rates.
The measures consist of a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew, and added limits on personal contacts and access to non-essential stores in regions with high case numbers.
The deserted ‘Budapesater Strasse’ at the bottom of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, left, is pictured during a nationwide curfew in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
Germany mourns its 80,000 Covid dead; Coronavirus crisis deepens across India
World
April 19, 2021
New Delhi: More government hospital beds will be freed for Covid-19 patients, India’s health ministry said Sunday, as the vast nation grappled with a worsening virus crisis and states appealed for additional supplies of oxygen and treatment drugs.
The country of 1.3 billion people added a record-high of 261,500 new cases on Sunday, with one-in-six people who underwent tests returning positive coronavirus results, the ministry said.
India is the world’s second most-infected nation with almost 14.8 million cases. Hospitals usually reserved for employees of ministries or public sector companies should convert some of their wards into Covid-19 facilities equipped with ICU and oxygen-supported beds, ventilators, laboratories and healthcare staff, the government said.
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel places a candle during the ceremony for coronavirus victims. AFP
BERLIN: Germany held a national memorial service on Sunday for its nearly 80,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic, putting aside deep divisions over Covid restrictions to share the pain of grieving families.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier joined an ecumenical service in the morning at Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, a memorial against war and destruction.
They will later attend a ceremony at the capital’s Konzerthaus concert hall, where the president will make a speech.
“Sickness, dying and death cannot be just pushed away in this long year, they have cut deeply into the lives of many people,” said Georg Baetzing, the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, at the morning service.
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While the top German leaders, including Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (65), Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (66, CDU), Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (78, CDU), Bundesrat President Reiner Haseloff (67, CDU) and the President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Stephan Harbarth (49), yesterday, Sunday, 18. As they commemorated those who died in the coronavirus pandemic at an ecumenical service in Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Sunday, 18 April 2021, millions of German citizens fear that they will not be able to enjoy an uninterrupted summer holiday in 2021.