FILE PHOTO: People queue at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre at the Treptow Arena in Berlin, Germany January 4, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is extending its nationwide lockdown until the end of the month and introducing tougher restrictions in an effort to curb a surge in coronavirus infections, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.
"We need to reduce contacts further because we have seen that we have not been able to lower the incidence (of coronavirus) in the last (few) weeks as far as we would have wished for," Merkel told journalists after a meeting with the leaders of Germany's 16 federal states.
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