Merkel’s chief of staff says pandemic to last at least for rest of year

The chief of staff to German chancellor Angela Merkel has said the coronavirus pandemic will last for at least the rest of the year.

“We are not living after the pandemic now – rather we are living in the middle of a pandemic, one that will be with us for a while – at least for this year and that’s being very optimistic,” Helge Braun told Deutschlandfunk radio on Thursday.

Yesterday, Merkel announced steps to ease the coronavirus lockdown in Germany but simultaneously launched an “emergency brake” mechanism allowing for restrictions to be renewed if Covid-19 infections rise again.

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