{"id":103885,"date":"2021-01-04T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=103885"},"modified":"2021-01-04T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:19:18","slug":"germany-heading-towards-extension-of-hard-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/germany-heading-towards-extension-of-hard-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany heading towards extension of hard lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; The German government and the country\u2019s 16 federal states have agreed to extend a strict lockdown until Jan. 31 in an effort to bring coronavirus infections under control, Bild newspaper reported on Monday, without providing a source.<\/p><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: Police officers block the boulevard &#8216;Strasse des 17. Juni&#8217; on which the New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations with thousands of people have usually taken place in previous years, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, December 31, 2020. REUTERS\/Hannibal Hanschke<\/figcaption><p>Chancellor Angela Merkel and the state premiers are scheduled on Tuesday to discuss a possible extension of the lockdown beyond Jan. 10. Some, including Bavaria\u2019s premier Markus Soeder, have already spoken in favour of an extension.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the Bild report, a government source told Reuters: \u201cAll but two federal states support (a lockdown extension until) Jan. 31. However, the formal decision will be made on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Germany was more successful than many European countries in keeping the coronavirus in check during the first wave in the spring but has seen a surge in new infections since the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>It imposed a second hard lockdown on Dec. 16, closing schools, shops and restaurants after a partial lockdown introduced in early November did not bring the hoped-for reduction in new infections.<\/p>\n<p>The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany, which has a total population of around 83 million, increased by 9,847 to 1.76 million in a day, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Monday. The reported death toll rose by 302 to 34,574.<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Germany\u2019s hospitals has become \u201cextremely difficult\u201d, a government spokesman told a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The federal states will take the decision on when and how schools will reopen, the education ministers agreed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>They recommend a three-step procedure, which would see the first six grades return first, flexible teaching times for pupils from the seventh grade in a second step and a broad return to classrooms in a third step.<\/p>\n<p>Like other European Union countries, Germany started vaccinating its population against COVID-19 in late December, but officials and media have expressed frustration with the slow rate of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Only 265,986 people had received a first shot by Monday, according to the RKI. This compares with more than a million people in Britain, which approved the vaccine developed by Pfizer and Germany\u2019s BioNTech earlier than the EU and also began innoculating with Oxford University and Astrazeneca\u2019s vaccine on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-germany\/germany-heading-towards-extension-of-hard-lockdown-idUSKBN299112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; The German government and the country\u2019s 16 federal states have agreed to extend a strict lockdown until Jan. 31 in an effort [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Germany heading towards extension of hard lockdown - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/germany-heading-towards-extension-of-hard-lockdown\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Germany heading towards extension of hard lockdown - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; 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