Merkel: We are in the third wave of pandemic, the softening of measures to be implemented gradually

“Now we are in the third wave,” has said Merkel, Reuters reports.

According to the agency's conversationaries, Merkel stressed that any easing of the deadlock measures, introduced late last month and extended until March 7th, should be implemented gradually and carefully.

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The closure of all businesses whose business is not considered necessary for the lives of citizens and controls on borders with Austria and the Czech Republic, where hot spots associated with a more contagious strain of the virus have been shown, have helped Germany reduce the number of new people from the coronary.

However, slow application of vaccines and the danger of outbreaks of large species of the virus that have spread rapidly and have already been discovered in Germany can make it more difficult to ease restrictive measures.