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Germany ends obligatory masks for public transit

Deutsche Welle
Posted at Feb 03 06:01 AM

Germany has dropped mask mandates nationwide starting Thursday. Read more »

Germany reports record COVID-19 cases before easing curbs

Reuters
Posted at Mar 15 04:38 PM

Germany reported a record high 7-day incidence of the coronavirus on Tuesday, just days before the planned easing of restrictions. Read more »

Germany records 164,000 COVID-19 infections in 1 day

Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 05:06 PM

Germany on Wednesday reported a new record of 164,000 COVID-19 infections in one day. Read more »

Germany could reduce COVID isolation periods to keep country running

Andreas Rinke and Riham Alkousaa, Reuters
Posted at Jan 06 06:54 AM

Germany is considering shortening COVID-19 self-isolation periods over fears that critical services could grind to a halt as the highly infectious Omicron variant takes hold. Read more »

COVID-19 deaths in Germany breach 100,000-mark

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 25 03:57 PM

Germany announced record coronavirus fatalities and infections Thursday as its total death toll passed 100,000. Read more »

Suspected saline switch sparks vaccine stir in Germany

Reuters
Posted at Aug 11 04:55 PM

Authorities in northern Germany appealed to thousands of people on Tuesday to get another shot of COVID-19 vaccine after a police investigation found that a Red Cross nurse may have injected them with a saline solution. Read more »

Unvaccinated residents could face new restrictions in Germany: Merkel aide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 26 07:47 AM

BERLIN - People who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 could face new restrictions if infections continue to rise in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said in a Sunday interview. Read more »

Germany COVID-19 infections pass 3 million

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 12 02:04 PM

BERLIN - The number of COVID-19 infections in Germany has crossed the three million mark, according to figures published Monday by the Robert Koch Institute disease control center. Read more »

Football: Germany player tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of Iceland qualifier - DFB

Reuters
Posted at Mar 25 11:14 PM

DUISBURG, Germany - A Germany player has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of their opening 2022 World Cup qualifier at home to Iceland on Thursday, the country's football association (DFB) said. Read more »

Germany to recommend AstraZeneca jab for over-65s: Merkel

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 04 08:51 AM

BERLIN - Germany will soon authorize the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine against Covid-19 for people over the age of 65, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday. Read more »

Labor department offers Filipino nurses in exchange for vaccines from Britain, Germany

Neil Jerome Morales, Reuters
Posted at Feb 23 09:33 PM

MANILA - The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior labor official said on Tuesday. Read more »

Germany detects first case of Brazilian virus variant

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 23 07:37 AM

BERLIN - Germany has detected its first case of a newly discovered Brazilian coronavirus variant, feared to be particularly infectious, regional health officials in the state of Hesse said Friday. Read more »

After 10 months of quarantine, chronically ill young German jumps vaccine queue

Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 04:36 AM

NIEDERBREITBACH, Germany - Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, chronically ill 30-year-old Benni Over has lived in strict domestic quarantine in the German resort town of Niederbreitbach with his parents, who look after him around the clock. Read more »

Lockdown sa ilang bansa sa Europa pinalawig

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 08:33 PM

Sunod-sunod ang pagpapalawig ng lockdown sa mga bansa sa Europa dahil sa paglaganap ng COVID-19.  Read more »

Germany surpasses 2 million coronavirus cases, as death rate up

Reuters
Posted at Jan 15 09:32 PM

Germany surpassed 2 million coronavirus infections and the death toll from the pandemic reached almost 45,000, experts said on Friday, a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded "very fast action" to curb the deadly virus Read more »

Germany's daily COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 for first time

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 30 02:39 PM

Germany's daily coronavirus death toll has crossed 1,000 for the first time, health authorities said Wednesday. Read more »

Vaccine overdose puts German care workers in hospital

Reuters
Posted at Dec 29 02:08 AM

BERLIN - Germany's COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by a mishap in the north where eight workers in an elderly care home received an overdose. Read more »

Cold chain doubts delay COVID-19 vaccinations in some German cities

Arno Schuetze, Reuters
Posted at Dec 28 06:52 AM

Germany's coronavirus vaccination campaign faced delays in several cities on Sunday after temperature trackers showed that about 1,000 of the shots made by BioNTech and Pfizer may not have been kept cold enough during transit. Read more »

Compulsory face masks helped cut German COVID-19 cases by almost 50 percent - study

Holly Chik, South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 06 10:13 AM

A study concludes that masks are one of the most cost-effective ways to fight the disease with a cost that is ‘close to zero’ compared with other measures. It looked at data from over 400 municipal districts and found that some cities saw infections fall by up 75 percent within 20 days. Read more »

Germany's coronavirus infections pass 1 million

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 27 02:19 PM

Germany on Friday saw its total number of coronavirus infections pass one million, the Robert Koch Institute for disease control said.   Read more »