These new restrictions will begin from December 16 and will be in effect until at least January 10 to help battle the ‘peak of the pandemic’ which threatens to strike the country’s healthcare system.

Alexei Navalny thanked German Vice Chancellor Angela Merkel in a tweet, after she paid a personal visit to him in a Berlin hospital

Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel avoided handshakes amidst global COVID-19 pandemic.