German health minister hints at easing of virus curbs
They went into a partial lockdown in November, closing bars, restaurants and cultural and sporting facilities H. J. I. / AFP
04.02.2021
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German health minister hints at easing of virus curbs
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German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Thursday suggested coronavirus restrictions could be lifted before spring, as case numbers in the country continued to edge downwards.
-We can t stay in this hard lockdown all winter. We would not tolerate that well as a society- Spahn said in an interview with the Funke media group.
Germany went into a partial lockdown in November, closing bars, restaurants and cultural and sporting facilities.
Covid-19: Germany may lift curbs soon as cases dip
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Number of new infections, patients in intensive care falling steadily.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn on Thursday suggested coronavirus restrictions could be lifted before spring, as case numbers in the country continued to edge downwards. We can t stay in this hard lockdown all winter. We would not tolerate that well as a society, Spahn said in an interview with the Funke media group.
Germany went into a partial lockdown in November, closing bars, restaurants and cultural and sporting facilities.
Schools and non-essential shops were added to the list in mid-December, with rules on mask-wearing and working from home tightened in January amid concerns over new virus variants.
German Health Minister Spahn hints at lockdown easing We can t stay in this hard lockdown all winter, Jens Spahn said in an interview. But his comments come as a group of frontline medical workers call for the restrictions to be extended.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn signaled on Thursday that coronavirus lockdown restrictionscould be lifted before the spring. We can t stay in this hard lockdown all winter. We would not tolerate that well as a society, Spahn said in an interview with the
Funke media group.
He pointed to the drop in the number of new infections and patients in intensive care since the start of the year, calling the figures encouraging.”