Merkel slams “discussion orgies” of regional governments planning to ease Covid-19 restrictions
Germany is about to relax its quarantine restrictions, but some regions are planning to go too far, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who warned that such carelessness risks a major setback in fighting the virus.
Merkel took an unusually harsh tone as she said her government’s decision to gradually lift some restrictions imposed over the epidemic of the novel coronavirus has unleashed “discussion orgies” on further relaxing the rules, according to sources cited by the German dpa news agency.
We have not made it yet,” the chancellor said, warning that relaxing the rules too much could easily reverse all the progress the nation has achieved in fighting the disease and cause another spike in infection cases. Merkel, who spoke at a session of her Christian Democratic Union Party presidium, said that such discussions are particularly “not helpful” since they could prompt more people to abandon social distancing norms.