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COVID-Stricken European Countries Focus on Breaking Up Parties

Jamie Dettmer

   German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been urging Germany's young people
   to observe tightening pandemic restrictions. "Do without a few
   parties," she has told them.

   Once seen as a model to follow in the fight against the coronavirus,
   Germany is now struggling to contain the pandemic and is seeing an
   alarming surge in cases. Merkel Sunday night in her weekly podcast
   pleaded with Germans to slow the transmission of the coronavirus by
   "temporarily renouncing" social life outside the immediate family and
   home.

   On Sunday, the country recorded 7,830 new cases of infection. Merkel
   has been struggling to persuade regional governments to impose new
   lockdown measures. "The pandemic is spreading rapidly again, faster
   than at the beginning more than six months ago," she warned.

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