German health chief urges Covid crackdown to avert ‘very bad Christmas’
Country facing ‘extremely dismal days’ as it set ninth consecutive record for daily case numbers
The head of Germany’s disease control agency has said the country is heading for a “very bad Christmas season” if drastic measures are not taken to dampen the spread of coronavirus.
Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said that even if measures were taken Germany faced a period of “extremely dismal days” during which hundreds of people would die out of those currently infected.
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