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[quote=Anonymous]With about 800 confirmed cases now, Germany is currently dithering over whether to close schools.  a prominent virologist Alexander Kekule is recommending the whole country take a 14 day coronavirus holiday to allow clusters (he calls them herds) to be identified and quarantined and isolated to try to slow the spread or even stop it in less affected areas.

I'm also reading the Germany has been refusing to export protective masks and clothing to Switzerland.  This is an indication of the stress on the health care system.  If workers don't have protective clothing, most won't work.  Things are getting to the point where they need to stop exporting the masks they produce in Germany.  This is after just about 2 weeks since cases started growing in the community.

https://web.de/magazine/panorama/live-blog-coronavirus-italien-sperrzone-34468484

[quote]Switzerland is outraged by the German export ban for protective masks
9:29: The German ban on exports of protective clothing for the fight against the new coronavirus has diplomatic, according to a media report tensions with Switzerland out.

As the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) informed the "NZZ am Sonntag", the Confederation had summoned the German ambassador and had also presented itself to the responsible ministries in Berlin. "In these contacts, the German authorities were urged to release the blocked programs immediately," the newspaper quotes from a response from Seco.

According to "NZZ am Sonntag", a truck from a Swiss company is currently being prevented from traveling to Switzerland by German customs authorities. The truck was loaded with 240,000 protective masks . According to the Seco, this is not an isolated case.[/quote][/quote]

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