{"id":4432,"date":"2021-02-24T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:07:58","slug":"merkel-announces-third-wave-of-pandemic-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/merkel-announces-third-wave-of-pandemic-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel announces third wave of pandemic in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German Chancellor&nbsp;<strong>Angela Merkel&nbsp;<\/strong>believes that her country is already facing the third wave of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0informs with reference to TASS that the Chancellor expressed her opinion during a meeting of the CDU \/ CSU faction in the Bundestag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We cannot hide the fact that we are now dealing with the third wave,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, according to Merkel, the working group led by the head of the Federal Chancellor&#8217;s Office,&nbsp;<strong>Helge Braun<\/strong>, should continue to work on a strategy for the gradual abolition of the current restrictive measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of the federal government stressed that it is important to open shops first, then restaurants, and only after them, hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merkel is seriously concerned about new strains of coronavirus, one of which was previously identified in the UK. The British variant of the coronavirus may be 70% more infectious. It was first reported to the public on December 19 amid rising incidence in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor&nbsp;Angela Merkel&nbsp;believes that her country is already facing the third wave of the pandemic. &#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;\u00a0informs with reference to TASS that the Chancellor expressed her opinion during a meeting of the CDU \/ CSU faction in the Bundestag. &#8220;We cannot hide the fact that we are now dealing with the third wave,&#8221; she said. Nevertheless,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/merkel-announces-third-wave-of-pandemic-in-germany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merkel announces third wave of pandemic in Germany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}