Germany is extending its national coronavirus lockdown by three weeks in an effort to reduce stubbornly high infection and death rates. Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders also agreed to tighten some restrictions – including curbs on social contacts and limits on people’s movements in the worst-affected regions. Germany’s latest official figures, showing over 21,000 new infections and a thousand deaths, underscored the situation’s urgency.
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