After the cheers come jeers for Germany's Merkel over COVID-19


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  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures as she delivers a speech in the country's parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) -Chancellor Angela Merkel banged the podium in frustration as she implored Germans this month to reduce social contacts to curb the spread of COVID-19.

At one point in her unusually passionate address to parliament, during which she was heckled, she brought her hands together as if in prayer. At others, she shook her fist.

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