German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine, according to her spokesman Steffen Seibert.
The decision came after new drastic, Germany-wide measures on limiting contact among the population were announced.
According to DW, Merkel was informed that a doctor she had been in contact with on Friday had meanwhile tested positive for the coronavirus.
POLITICO reports that Germany will ramp up efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus by banning meetings of more than two people outside the same household and mandating the closure of nonessential businesses, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.
The new regulations, the tightest in modern Germany’s history, will last at least two weeks, and mean restaurants, hairdressers, massage parlors and other nonessential stores should close. The measures stop short of a curfew.
Merkel also warned of consequences if people violate the new measures, but did not specify what that would entail. “These are not recommendations, but rules,” she said.
The new regulation says: “Spending time in public space is only permitted on your own, with another person who does not live in the household or with members of your own household.” When in public, people should stand at least 1.5 meters apart, Merkel said.
