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Berlin, Mar 23 (EFE).- Germany will tighten its lockdown measures for a five-day period over the Easter holidays in a bid to stem a third wave of Covid-19.Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the country's 16 federal states made this decision early Tuesday following 11 hours of talks to assess the country's current pandemic situation.Political leaders agreed that all stores apart from grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations would close during the holiday weekend between April 1 through 5.Public gatherings will be banned during that time, too.Merkel said the number of Covid-19 cases was rising exponentially, adding the situation in Germany was serious.Leaders also agreed to extend the country’s coronavirus lockdown until April 18, with private gatherings limited to one person from another household."It is absolutely essential that we are hitting the emergency brake," said Merkel, justifying the strict measures in view of the growing number of infections.The chancellor underlined that it is important to ease the pressure on intensive care units as well as control the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.Lockdown measures have left almost all shops in Germany shut since December 16, while restaurants and bars have been closed since early November.Earlier this month, the country allowed hairdressers, florists and hardware stores to reopen for business in some areas. VIDEO: ARCHIVE
Bangkok / Manila / Hanoi / Jakarta, Sep 15 (EFE/EPA).- In its worst wave of the pandemic, Southeast Asia has resigned itself to living with Covid-19 and is committed to relaxing restrictions to revive the ailing economy and give its exhausted population a break.Countries such as Vietnam, Thailand or Malaysia, which kept Covid-19 low in 2020, have been facing an exponential increase in cases for months due to the contagious delta variant, originally detected in India. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE COVID-19 SITUATIONS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND; MANILA, PHILIPPINES; HANOI, VIETNAM AND JAKARTA, INDONESIA.
Athens (Greece), Sep 13 (EFE) .- (Camera: Yannis Chryssoverghis) The school year began this Monday in Greece with classrooms one hundred percent occupied and amid concerns that this could cause an upturn in infections daily covid-19, which now exceed 2,000 a day.FOOTAGE OF STUDENTS COMING BACK TO THEIR CLASSROOMS IN ATHENS, GREECE
Jakarta (Indonesia), Jul 4 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Adi Weda) Indonesia began to apply since this weekend a tightening of measures to combat the strong outbreak of Covid-19 in the country, with a high occupancy of hospital beds, linked to the expansion of the delta variant.FOOTAGE OF THE MEASURES IMPOSED BY THE AUTHORITIES IN JAKARTA. RESOURCES WITH DRONE WITHOUT AUDIO.
Berlin, Jul 2 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Clemens Bilan) The German Minister of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, and the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, said this Friday that everything indicates that those who have received the two doses of the coronavirus vaccine will not be subject to further restrictions, even if there is a fourth wave of the pandemic in the fall. FOOTAGE OF THE PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE GERMAN MINISTER OF THE CHANCELLERY, HELGE BRAUN.
Bremen (Germany), Jun 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Focke Strangmann) Given the decrease in the number of Covid-19 cases, the German state governments have relaxed restrictions and normal life returns to the cities.FOOTAGE OF BREMEN CITY, GERMANY.
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