Germany: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 73,425

Germany: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 73,425

Germany extends coronavirus lockdown with a new strategy.

DW News shows that Germany is extending its coronavirus Covid-19 shutdown by 3 weeks until March 28. But some restrictions will be eased to allow non-essential stores and other businesses to reopen in areas with relatively low infection rates. Chancellor Merkel announced the plan after talks with state leaders continued well into the night. They agreed that the new measures intended to offer a glimmer of hope that life will soon return to some normalcy.

The leaders agreed to a step-by-step important reopening strategy for businesses, schools and public spaces - with "emergency brakes" built in.

Each new step will require infection rates to remain low - less than 50 cases per 100,000 people over a 7 day period. If infection numbers begin to spike then the measures will quickly be reversed.

However, contact restrictions between households will be slightly eased as of next week. The reopening strategy also certainly focuses on vaccinations and mass testing. Jabs will soon be available at many family doctors to try and boost vaccination numbers. And starting next Monday, people in Germany will get access to one free rapid test a week.

German leaders are cautious about the Covid-19 Pandemic situation. With elections coming soon and public pressure growing - regional leaders want to curb restrictions quickly. However, they also want to avoid having to potentially return to yet another unpleasant lockdown.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is part of the ongoing worldwide global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria.

German time has a name. The time zone in Germany is Central European Time (Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ; UTC+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit, MESZ; UTC+02:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST).

The meaning of the flag of Germany is interesting. The tricolour horizontal bands consist of the official colours of Germany which are black, red, and gold. The important colours used in the national flag of Germany date back to the republican democracy proposed in the 1800s to represent unity and freedom considered to be prevalent in Germany.

Germany 2020 population is estimated at 83,783,942 people at mid year according to UN data.

The 7 major regions of Germany are: the Northeast German Plain, the Northwest German Plain, the Western Central Uplands, the Eastern Central Uplands, the South German Scarplands, the Alpine Foreland, and the North and Baltic Seas.

Keep up with Germany news. These are the top Newspapers in Germany:

Berliner Tageblatt

Bild

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Die Zeit

Die Welt

Die Tageszeitung

Frankfurter Rundschau

Handelsblatt

Hamburger Abendblatt

Rheinische Post

Münchner Merkur

Berliner Zeitung

Berliner Morgenpost

B.Z.

Junge Freiheit

Der Tagesspiegel

Hamburger Morgenpost

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

Augsburger Allgemeine

Express

Börsen-Zeitung

Bild am Sonntag

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung

Welt am Sonntag

Junge Welt

Stuttgarter Zeitung

Neues Deutschland

Passauer Neue Presse

Badische Zeitung

Kieler Nachrichten

Sächsische Zeitung

Lübecker Nachrichten

Freie Presse

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung

Nordkurier

Oberhessische Presse

Pforzheimer Zeitung

Die Rheinpfalz

Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung

General-Anzeiger

Lausitzer Rundschau

The Munich Eye

Frankfurter Neue Presse

Südwest Presse

Flensborg Avis

Der Freitag

Die Presse

Jungle World

Rheinischer Merkur

Financial Times Deutschland

Berliner Tageblatt

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These are some of Germany's largest cities:

Berlin

Hamburg

Munich

Cologne

Frankfurt am Main

Stuttgart

Düsseldorf

Leipzig

Keep up to date with the Germany GDP. Germany's GDP is certainly high. Germany's solid economy, the world's 4th largest and Europe's largest, is based on exports of high-quality manufactured goods. Germany has come under fire from other European countries and the United States for its low level of defense spending and its construction of a certain second natural gas pipeline link with Russia.

Germany is indisputably wealthy. It is Europe's largest national economy and the continent's leading manufacturer, exporting vehicles, machinery, chemicals and electronics, among other products.