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‘Mutants are a reality’: Germany extends lockdown until March 7 as Merkel urges caution over Covid-19 variants

Exceptions to the lockdown, which has been in place since December, mean that hairdressers are able to reopen from March 1 and federal states can decide on their own timetables for the reopening of schools. 

But German bars, restaurants, hotels, leisure centers and non-essential shops will remain closed until the seven-day virus incidence rate drops from the current 68 new cases per 100,000 people, to 35 cases.

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Merkel said Germany should be “very satisfied” with its falling infection rates, but warned of a potential “third wave” due to the spread of variants in the country. 

“We know that these mutants are a reality now, and with that [the infection rate] will increase. The question is how quickly it will increase,” she told a news briefing.

The Covid-19 variants from Brazil, South Africa and the UK have all been detected in Germany, according to the country’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI). On Wednesday the RKI reported 8,072 new Covid-19 cases and a further 813 fatalities, taking the country’s total death toll to more than 62,000. 

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