Germany is going back into lockdown with all non-essential shops closed over Easter and church services moved online as Chancellor Angela Merkel warned last night: ‘We are in a new pandemic’. New nationwide measures will come into force on April 1 – just weeks after some restrictions were eased – and end on April 5, … Read more
Germany extended its lockdown measures by another month and imposed several new restrictions, including largely shutting down public life over Easter, in an effort to drive down the rate of coronavirus infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the measures early this morning after a lengthy video call with the country’s 16 state governors, nearly three weeks … Read more
Colleague of Angela Merkel, 53, collapses and dies next to her husband on a flight from Cuba to Germany Karin Strenz, 53, was pronounced dead at hospital after collapsing on a flight The plane made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, at 7:30am Strenz was under investigation over alleged money transfers from Azerbaijan By … Read more
Angela Merkel EXTENDS Germany’s Covid restrictions into next month despite mass anti-lockdown protests and her party’s election drubbing Thousands of lockdown protesters rallied in cities across Europe this weekend Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is keen to go ahead with extension Internal memo said rising infection rates could be curbed with the extension By Isabella Nikolic … Read more
Angela Merkel has said she will have the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after lifting her government’s ban in a stunning U-turn. The German Chancellor is among several European leaders to have resumed AstraZeneca inoculations after suspending them for fear they caused blood clots. European regulators have insisted the vaccine is safe and that the tiny handful of … Read more
Germany is extending its Covid lockdown by three weeks until March 28 but easing some restrictions to allow non-essential shops and businesses to reopen in areas with low infection rates. After about nine hours of talks on Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the governors of the country’s 16 states agreed to the measures amid a … Read more
A senior German immunologist has urged Angela Merkel to be vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine live on television. Carsten Watzl, secretary general of the German Society for Immunology, said the Chancellor of Germany should allow over-65’s to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine and suggested she lead by example. Officials fed doubts over the Oxford University researched jab’s effectiveness amid reports … Read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel last night warned that new Covid variants risk a third wave of infections sweeping across the country which could provoke another national lockdown. Coronavirus cases have started to increase again in Germany with only four per cent of the public vaccinated, while Britons are already counting down the days to freedom … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany is now in the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, two sources told Reuters news agency. ‘We are now in the third wave,’ Merkel told lawmakers in her conservative party on Wednesday, according to two sources who attended the meeting. The chancellor is also said to have warned … Read more
It has been a common problem for millions of office workers around the world over the past year – the dreaded failure to mute their microphone while on a Zoom call. And today Germany’s Angela Merkel showed that world leaders were not immune from the faux pas as she had to be told to pipe … Read more