Germany is to shut down most retail outlets, in a clampdown on public life that marks an escalation of Berlin’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Shops, churches, sports facilities, bars and clubs will be closed down, in a move that Angela Merkel, chancellor, admitted was “drastic” and unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.
“But we have to do this right now to reduce the number of contacts and with it the number of . . . serious illnesses, and so prevent our health system coming under excessive strain,” she told reporters.
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