German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that it was too early to relax restrictions on public life.
Latest figures which show the spread of the coronavirus is slowing in Germany are a cause for"hope", Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but warned that it was too early to relax restrictions on public life.
"If I were to disappoint the hopes awoken by such a promise, then we would be out of the frying pan and into the fire -- medically, economically and socially," she said.Earlier Friday, the Robert Koch Institute for disease control announced that measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus are starting to show effect.
"If the number is below one, then it means the epidemic is slowly easing up. That is our aim," he said. "I need to say very clearly: the measures need to be maintained. Keeping your distance and staying at home is imperative, otherwise we will not push the number under one," he said.
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