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Ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, prominent politicians in the country began discussing the possibility of easing restrictions to combat the outbreak of the Corona virus pandemic. Merkel and prime ministers of 16 German states are expected to receive recommendations from the German National Academy of Sciences, the chancellor says will have weight Considerable research into the possibility of easing restrictions on movement and social estrangement imposed since about mid-March.
This comes with a decline in the numbers of new cases and deaths in Germany that have better resisted the pandemic than other European countries like Italy, Spain and France.
But Germany’s export-dependent economy has been hit, and is expected to contract by 9.8% in the second quarter of the year, the highest rate since these rates began in 1970, and more than twice the country’s contraction during the global financial crisis in 2009.
Merkel will discuss the recommendations of the Academy of Sciences with her cabinet on Tuesday, and will hold a videoconference with state governors on Wednesday to discuss the possible path out of public isolation measures and how to manage the expected recession.
The data of the German Robert Koch Institute on Monday showed a rise in the number of injuries during the past 24 hours by 2537, an increase at a rate lower than that recorded on Sunday (2821 cases)
