Germany’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, reported 18,633 new patients over the past 24 hours. Germany embarked on a so-called “wave-breaker” shutdown on November 2, closing restaurants, bars, sports and leisure facilities but leaving schools, shops and hair salons open. Merkel said that while existing measures have succeeded in halting an surge in new coronavirus infections, they have stabilized at a high level. Germany, which has 83 million people, was credited with a relatively good performance in the first phase of the pandemic. It still has a lower death rate than several other European countries, and its current shutdown has been relatively mild.

Source: The Standard November 26, 2020 08:48 UTC