Pressure has been growing on Chancellor Angela Merkel to ease curbs on public life that have plunged the economy into a deep recession.
MEETING. Overall view shows the Bavarian cabinet members sitting with distance in the dome hall of the Bavarian State chancellery during a Bavarian cabinet meeting on May 5, 2020 in Munich amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Sven Hoppe/Pool/AFP
Hotels would also be allowed to welcome guests again from May 30, in time for the Pentecost holiday long weekend. As regions increasingly take action going beyond those agreed in previous talks between the federal government and state leaders, Merkel has furiously complained that some were pushing ahead"too aggressively."But industries have warned that the economic toll of the lockdown was already devastatingly high with output expected to shrink by 6.3% for the full year.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will allow restaurants to reopen from Saturday, May 9, and hotels to follow from May 18. Germany, which has recorded 163,860 cases of confirmed infections, including 6,831 deaths, has been hailed for its success so far in preventing its health services from being overwhelmed.
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