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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) defended the extension of the corona-related restrictions on Wednesday evening.

Although NRW had the lowest number of new infections since October 20, the effect of the new virus variant could not be estimated.

"We know too little about the mutated virus," he said in Düsseldorf.

"We want to gain time."

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