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Germany will require restaurants and bars to close their doors to patrons starting Monday and professional sports teams to play to empty stadiums, while theaters, gyms and cosmetic studios will be shuttered as the country scrambles to halt a spike in new virus cases.
The latest restrictions also limit the number of people allowed to meet up in public, but supermarkets, stores, schools and day care centers will remain open, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday. The German media labeled the restrictions, which are less comprehensive than those imposed in the spring, when schools and most businesses were forced to close, as “lockdown light.”
The measures aim to ease the strain on the country’s health system, where hospitals have seen the number of patients double in the past 10 days, as new daily cases nudged toward a record 15,000, and halt the rapid spread of the virus before the coming Christmas holidays, without bringing the economy to a complete standstill.
The government will compensate small- and mid-sized businesses affected by the monthlong closures with up to 75 percent of losses, the chancellor said. Financial aid for affected business will be worth up to 10 billion euros.
“Within weeks we will reach the limits of our health system,” Ms. Merkel said at a news conference, after she reached agreement with Germany’s 16 governors on the nationwide measures, which she conceded were hard, but necessary. “It is completely clear that we must act, and act now to prevent a national health crisis.”
Ms. Merkel conceded the restrictions are “burdensome” for a public that has grown increasingly weary of and rebellious against the limitations.
For weeks, European countries have tried to slow the spread of the virus through targeted restrictions aimed at avoiding the tough nationwide lockdowns imposed in the spring. But the measures have not succeeded at halting the surge in cases and hospitalizations.
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