This photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020 shows a street near Berlin's Reichstag that used to be crowded with tourists becomes now empty. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei)
Germany is to go into a hard lockdown from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10, after Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Christmas shopping for causing a "considerable" rise in social contacts and a subsequent increase in cases of novel coronavirus infection.
This photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020 shows a street near Berlin's Reichstag that used to be crowded with tourists becomes now empty. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei)
Germany is to go into a hard lockdown from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10, after Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Christmas shopping for causing a "considerable" rise in social contacts and a subsequent increase in cases of novel coronavirus infection.
This photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020 shows several people queue outside a Starbucks shop in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei)
Germany is to go into a hard lockdown from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10, after Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Christmas shopping for causing a "considerable" rise in social contacts and a subsequent increase in cases of novel coronavirus infection.
This photo taken on Dec. 13, 2020 shows the five-star Adlon hotel in Berlin offers a delivery service over the rising cases of the COVID-19 infections. (Photo: China News Service/Peng Dawei)
Germany is to go into a hard lockdown from Dec. 16 to Jan. 10, after Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Christmas shopping for causing a "considerable" rise in social contacts and a subsequent increase in cases of novel coronavirus infection.