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'Basically In A New Pandemic,' Says Merkel, As Germany Extends Lockdown
npr ^ | 3/23/21 | Scott Neuman

Posted on 03/25/2021 10:11:29 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday announced an intensified coronavirus lockdown going into Easter, warning that new mutations raised the specter of a potentially deadly "third wave" of COVID-19 as Europe struggles in its vaccination campaign.

Speaking early Tuesday, Merkel said restrictions would be extended until April 18. She called on citizens to stay home and for shops to close for five days over the Easter holiday.

"We are now basically in a new pandemic. The British mutation has become dominant," Merkel said after late-night videoconference sessions with leaders of Germany's 16 states.

"Fundamentally, we face a new virus of the same kind but with very different characteristics," she said. "More deadly, more infectious, and infectious for longer."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; covid19; germany; newpandemic; russia
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Control.


2 posted on 03/25/2021 10:12:55 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

50 more weeks to flatten the curve.


3 posted on 03/25/2021 10:13:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yesterday she was saying no lockdown would ever happen again.


4 posted on 03/25/2021 10:13:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1414107/angela-merkel-germany-easter-lockdown-latest-covid19-eu-third-wave


5 posted on 03/25/2021 10:15:48 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

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6 posted on 03/25/2021 10:16:25 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Meet the new pandemic, same as the old pandemic.


7 posted on 03/25/2021 10:17:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ifinnegan

Will this ever end? Will life get back to normal ever?

There will always be variants of virus out there, won’t there? Is shutting down society really the best way to deal with a virus?


8 posted on 03/25/2021 10:17:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I thought it was either the South African mutation or the one from Detroit.


9 posted on 03/25/2021 10:18:08 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Obadiah

LOL!
Thank you.

HTML is not my friend. :)


10 posted on 03/25/2021 10:19:00 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Don’t mention the war.


11 posted on 03/25/2021 10:19:14 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Only cause that pic scared me.


12 posted on 03/25/2021 10:20:34 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They just make stuff up.

I don’t think it will ever end.


13 posted on 03/25/2021 10:21:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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So sprechen Frau Stasi.


14 posted on 03/25/2021 10:21:59 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: ifinnegan

Basically in a new pogrom against Christianity.

Second Easter.

By next year people will have forgotten what Easter could and should be.


15 posted on 03/25/2021 10:23:25 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ConservativeMind

“More deadly,” says Frau Merkel.

Why don’t I believe her?


16 posted on 03/25/2021 10:27:17 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Is shutting down society really the best way to deal with a virus?

Of course not. But we hire people to run our country based on who has the best method of cheating and lying their way in.


17 posted on 03/25/2021 10:28:35 AM PDT by spudville
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To: OttawaFreeper

The strain from upper Brooklyn is also massively contagious.


18 posted on 03/25/2021 10:30:15 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: ifinnegan

Frau murkel reliving the good old days behind the wall. Ahhhhhh!


19 posted on 03/25/2021 10:33:08 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: ifinnegan

The EU zone had no equivalent to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. This includes no pre-ordering of 100s of millions doses of vaccines while they were still under development.

Now they’re living, and dying, with the fallout of this poor planning. They simply don’t have the necessary supply of doses to vaccinate at anywhere near the speed that we’re doing here in the USA.


20 posted on 03/25/2021 10:34:54 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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