“Today we held negotiations once again and agreed to introduce new measures ... We are doing this as a precautionary measure for the health of citizens, as well as for the sake of the economy and the labor market ... We agreed that all measures that were calculated before January 31, should be extended until February 14, "- quoted by RIA Novosti Merkel.

Earlier, the Robert Koch Institute reported that in Germany more than 1 million people were vaccinated with the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus.

On January 9, Merkel announced that the next weeks of winter will be the most severe phase of the pandemic.

Doctor of Medical Sciences Nikolai Kryuchkov, an immunologist, commented on the situation with the pandemic in an interview with FAN.