The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. Already, more than 7.2 million people globally have become infected with the novel Coronavirus – 184.629 of them in Germany. 400,000 people have already died of Covid-19.

Bavaria’s state government has criticised the lifting of contact restrictions for the Corona-fight in the neighboring state of Thuringia solid. "It is irresponsible, that of Thuringia government to its controversial course in dealing with the Corona-pandemic festhält", health Minister Melanie Huml (CSU) said on Wednesday in Munich. Even though the infection numbers in the whole of Germany fell, "we are not yet on the Berg". You referred, in the context in particular of the Bavarian point of view, "slightly higher infection numbers right on the border to Thuringia and also in Thuringia, for instance, in the district of Sonneberg". dpa/Peter Kneffel/dpabild Melanie Huml (CSU), Bavarian Minister of state for health and care, participates in a press conference part.

"It is very important now that the necessary distance regulations and hygiene concepts as well as the mask adhered to duty werden", you stressed. Prudence and caution would have to determine the Action. The successes achieved should not be lost.

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