Merkel warns of difficult winter ahead at halfway point of shutdown
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday warned of a difficult winter to come, two weeks into a month-long nationwide partial shutdown aimed at dampening coronavirus case numbers.
“The coming winter will make heavy demands of us all,” Merkel said in her weekly podcast. Her comments come at the halfway point of a month-long set of restrictions on public life in Germany aimed at stemming the spread of the virus.
“The virus will continue to dominate our lives for quite some time,” she said, adding this would mean that people could not meet up as easily as in the past.
Her comments come ahead of a meeting planned for Monday with state representatives to assess the effectiveness of the country’s partial shutdown.
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