Parts of Germany scrap lockdown-easing measures after sudden spike in infections
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dailystar.co.ukJust days after German Chancellor Angela Merkel lifted many of her country’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions a sudden spike has seen them put back on again.
It seemed the country was ready to emerge from Covid-19 lockdown – restarting Bundesliga football and laying out a schedule for the reopening of schools – in what seemed like great news for the UK.
But joy was shortlived as 150 of 1,200 employees of a slaughterhouse in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, tested positive for Covid-19.
The state's Minister for Consumer Protection Ursula Heinen-Esser reacted by immediately postponing the lockdown-easing measures – which were to include reopening restaurants, gyms and “non-essential” retail stores.
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