Coronavirus: Germany announces second lockdown for month of November

[progree]

Source: Yahoo Finance UK

Europe's largest economy is going back into partial lockdown for the entire month of November in an attempt to get control of its spiralling coronavirus infections.

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She [Angela Merkel] said that the amount of people in intensive care with COVID-19 had doubled in the past 10 days -- and the health system would be at its limit within weeks if infections were not brought under control.

New restrictions include shutting down restaurants, bars, cinemas, gyms, theatres, and other public and leisure spaces.

Only two households are allowed meet, up to a maximum of 10 people, and only outdoors. Travel within Germany on non-essential trips is also forbidden, including to visit relatives.



Read more: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/germany-announces-second-lockdown-for-the-month-of-november-171217232.html

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Shops, schools and kindergartens will remain open, and old people in nursing homes can have visitors.

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For some perspective:

Daily new cases, 7 day moving average, per 100,000 people
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

12   Germany
22   U.S.A.
31   Italy
33   U.K.
39   Spain
57   France
117 Belgium

The STOXX Europe 600 closed at its lowest level since May

[underpants]

1. This is our last chance

Strange that we really are getting a second chance but this is it.

[Steelrolled]

4. Every day offers a new chance

but we aren't taking it, or we don't know how to take it. I don't know what is going on. I see nearly universal mask usage in public. Either masks don't work as well as we think, or most of the spread is in homes and other private spaces.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Germany's "out of control" is better than some countries' pre-wave death rate

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-07-07..2020-10-28&country=USA~GBR~DEU~NLD~FRA~ESP~ITA&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&pickerSort=desc

Their death rate is a fifth of the USA's current rate, a seventh of France's.

[progree]

3. Thanks, that's an incredible website /nt