{"id":4017,"date":"2020-12-15T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:23:57","slug":"germany-tightens-coronavirus-restrictions-as-cases-reach-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"Germany tightens coronavirus restrictions as cases reach record high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The sudden rise of infections caused surprise among many politicians and had led to a sudden shift of opinion in recent days, as some of Germany&#8217;s regional leaders had previously resisted calls from Merkel to adopt swifter measures. The latest numbers are notably worse than Merkel&#8217;s own prediction in late September, when she warned that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/merkel-warns-of-almost-20000-new-infections-per-day-in-germany-by-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germany could have 19,200 daily new cases<\/a>&nbsp;by Christmas if it did not introduce further restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on Sunday, the chancellor made an &#8220;urgent&#8221; appeal to citizens to respect the rules and thanked health care workers: &#8220;For them it will be a very hard Christmas.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-tightens-coronavirus-restrictions-as-cases-reach-new-record\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-tightens-coronavirus-restrictions-as-cases-reach-new-record\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The sudden rise of infections caused surprise among many politicians and had led to a sudden shift of opinion in recent days, as some of Germany&#8217;s regional leaders had previously resisted calls from Merkel to adopt swifter measures. The latest numbers are notably worse than Merkel&#8217;s own prediction in late September, when she warned that Germany could have 19,200 daily new cases by Christmas if it did not introduce further restrictions.<br \/>\nSpeaking on Sunday, the chancellor made an &#8220;urgent&#8221; appeal to citizens to respect the rules and thanked health care workers: &#8220;For them it will be a very hard Christmas.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,727],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}