The current wave of the coronavirus pandemic is the worst to hit Germany thus far, Health Minister Jens Spahn said in Berlin on Friday, as he called for a stringent reduction in contact between individuals. Spahn, who is serving in a caretaker capacity as a new coalition is formed, stopped short of calling for a total lockdown, an option that has been ruled out by the incoming coalition partners. “The situation is dramatically serious, as serious as at no point in this pandemic to date,” Spahn told a press conference in Berlin. Too little was occurring too late, he said, in implicit criticism …

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