Minimum contact: Germany extends lockdown until end of January

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel today announced that German nationwide COVID-19 lockdown is being extended at least until the end of this month.

The restrictions are also being toughened and the people are being instructed to limit contacts to a “minimum,” amid soaring number of new infection cases.

“We need to restrict contact more strictly… We ask all citizens to restrict contact to the absolute minimum,” Merkel told journalists on Tuesday.