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German federal and state governments have agreed to extend the measures against Covid-19 until the end of January, as well as to impose even stricter contact restrictions. For districts where more than 200 people per 100,000 inhabitants have been newly infected within seven days, the federal states will limit citizens' movement in a radius of 15 km around their residence, unless there is a valid reason, according to the agreement on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. In addition, the agreement requires people to limit their social life and stay at home to the greatest extent. Contact at private meetings will be restricted to just one other person not living in the same household. Previously, the size of private gatherings was limited to no more than two households of five people. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Germany has already closed all non-essential shops and services. Schools are largely closed and students are taught through distance learning. Employers are encouraged to allow employees to work from home. These measures were originally planned to last until January 10. At a press conference after the consultation meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the Covid-19 variant which emerged recently presents a "new special situation." It spreads rapidly and could lead to more infections, for which extra care must be taken, she said. According to the agreement, the three months ahead will still require considerable patience and discipline on everyone's part in Germany, because winter months favour the virus spread and the vaccination will only have a dampening effect when a larger part of the younger population has also been vaccinated. Germany launched its vaccination campaign at the end of last month, with priority given to people aged over 80, people in elderly and care facilities, and frontline health care workers. Also on Tuesday, Germany's disease control agency Robert Koch Institute reported 11,897 new infections in a 24-hour span, raising the country's total confirmed cases to 1,787,410. The number of coronavirus-linked fatalities rose by 944 in 24 hours to 35,518. Due to previous public holidays, there may have been delays in testing and reporting, said Robert Koch. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/boat-raises-over-100-million-from-warburg-pincus-analysts-expect-the-headphone-brand-to-double-its-revenue-to-10-billion-this-financial-year/articleshow/80126200.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">boAt raises over $100 million from Warburg Pincus — analysts expect the headphone brand to double its revenue to ₹10 billion this financial year</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/analysts-explain-why-burger-king-and-mrs-bectors-shares-fell-with-a-thud-and-what-to-do-now/articleshow/80120941.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Analysts explain why Burger King and Mrs Bector’s shares fell with a thud — and what to do now</a>

Germany extends COVID-19 lockdown until January 31, imposes stricter contact restrictions

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The UK has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-uk-lockdown-public-ordered-stay-at-home-covid-19-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">gone into full coronavirus lockdown</a> with the British public ordered to stay at home.</li><li>People will only be allowed to leave their home to do essential work, exercise or buy food or medicine.</li><li>All non-essential shops, premises and places of worship will be closed down, with weddings and baptisms banned.</li><li>Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the new rules would be enforced by the police with fines imposed on those breaking them.</li><li>The announcement comes as the latest data suggests the UK is just <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-uk-2-weeks-britain-italy-slow-outbreak-pandemic-2020-3?r=US&amp;IR=T">two weeks behind the level of crisis seen in Italy.</a></li><li>The UK has so far recorded at least <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-britain-united-kingdom-infection-deaths-symptoms-2020-3">6,650 coronavirus cases and 335 deaths.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Get the latest <a href="/coronavirus-covid19">coronavirus analysis and research</a> from Business Insider Intelligence on how COVID-19 is impacting businesses.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892705" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="germany" source="Orion">Germany</keyword> announced a lockdown for people not vaccinated against <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> on Thursday. </li><li>Unvaccinated people will be banned from restaurants and bars, movie theaters, gyms, non-essential shops, and Christmas markets.</li></ul>Germany is putting a new COVID-19 lockdown in place, but only for people who are not vaccinated against the <keyword id="11893194" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="coronavirus" source="Orion">coronavirus</keyword>, outgoing Chancellor <keyword id="11909348" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="angela-merkel" source="Orion">Angela Merkel</keyword> and her successor, Olaf Scholz, announced Thursday."Culture and leisure nationwide will be open only to those who have been vaccinated or recovered (from Covid)," Merkel said about the new lockdown, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/02/germany-announce-nationwide-covid-lockdown-unvaccinated/">according to The Telegraph.</a>Under the new measures, those who are not vaccinated will be banned from restaurants and bars, movie theaters, gyms, non-essential shops, and Christmas markets.Merkel and Scholz made the announcement after meeting with leaders of the country's 16 states to discuss ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19.The outgoing and incoming chancellors also voiced support for mandatory vaccinations in a proposal that would have to be voted through parliament, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/europe/germany-lockdown-covid-restrictions-intl/index.html">CNN reported.</a><a href="https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/germany/">According to data from Reuters,</a> Germany has administered more than 124 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, which is enough to have vaccinated about 74% of the population.Germany's new lockdown comes two weeks after Austria announced its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/austria-starts-lockdown-unvaccinated-people-only-2021-11">own lockdown for unvaccinated people.</a>In Austria's lockdown, unvaccinated people are only allowed to leave home for essential reasons.

Germany is imposing a COVID-19 lockdown for unvaccinated people only

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In March, <keyword id="12087066" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shanghai" source="Orion">Shanghai</keyword> implemented strict <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> testing and <keyword id="8919629" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdowns" source="Orion">lockdowns</keyword> as Omicron cases rose. </li><li>At first, residents were told they'd last five days. But one person who spoke to Insider said they've been inside for more than 60.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with a 30-year-old foreigner currently living in Shanghai. The source requested anonymity to protect themselves, but their identity and location have been verified by Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In March, Shanghai went into strict <keyword id="91743" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lockdown" source="Orion">lockdown</keyword> amid a rise in Omicron cases. <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/shanghai-starts-chinas-biggest-covid-19-lockdown-in-2-years/">It started with mass testing</a>, and then an initial five-day period where we had to stay in our homes. In mid-April, the city <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098150456/shanghai-maintains-zero-covid-policy-but-the-u-n-says-it-is-not-sustainable?t=1653419079423">recorded 26,000 daily new COVID-19 cases. Now, we're at about 1,500</a>, and restrictions are starting to lift, with city officials saying they aim to have everything <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-lockdown-restrictions-starbucks-apple-economy-supply-chain-2022-5">return to normal by June 1</a>.When the lockdown was first announced on March 28, the government told us it would be for only those <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shanghai-vows-improve-food-deliveries-discontent-grows-over-covid-curbs-2022-04-07/">five days only</a>. I went to the store and stocked up on the food and necessities that I'd need. Five days seemed manageable, especially after everything that's happened over the last couple of years here. But more than two months later, I was still stuck inside my building in Shanghai. I spent more than 60 days living alone before I was allowed to leave my housing compound — and even then, I had to stay in the district I lived in. It's been tough.<h2>Even with the drastically fewer number of things to do, I've realized how much I need to multitask </h2>For example, when I wake up each morning, I make breakfast and turn on my computer to start my work at a public-relations firm. But now, in lockdown, I also have to go online and place my order for anything I need from the store. The delivery companies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-food-delivery-drivers-homeless-strict-covid-lockdown-2022-5">have a special permit</a> that allows them to be on the street, and it's the only way — other than the food delivery that comes <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/03/shanghai-food-shortages-covid-lockdown-china/">sporadically from the local government</a> — to get what we need. <div type="image" title="Two cyclists on a quiet road in Shanghai" height="1333" width="2000" msid="91924903" hostid="261"></div>I'd already lived in my flat for about two years before the pandemic, but I didn't even know who my neighbors were when the lockdowns started. That's definitely changed. These days, we often order in bulk together directly from food distributors, who deliver directly to our building — things like coffee or milk. I love ham, so in our big WeChat group, I asked who else would like to order it. I then collected the money and called the distributor myself. A lot of the elderly people in my building don't know how to use the internet or apps, so we try and help them order what they need. <h2>The only fun part of this whole experience was trading food with my neighbors</h2>At the beginning of lockdown, I still had things in my fridge that others didn't. As neighbors, we started trading for things we needed but couldn't order online. For example, I had three bottles of coke in my fridge. I traded one bottle to a neighbor for some bananas, and then another bottle for a few cans of Budweiser. Now that we've been inside for so long, we all pretty much have access to the same food and drinks, so the trading doesn't really work anymore. Cooking, eating, and cleaning for myself, day in and day out, has become such a monotonous experience. <h2>I feel like we're in survival mode sometimes</h2>I spend most of my day doing my job in the living room, but because there's no real set time to stop, I end up working different hours. It's definitely hard to focus on my full-time job while also dealing with all of the extra things we have to do. I usually spend my nights watching variety TV shows.<h2>The COVID-19 restrictions change so often that it's hard to keep up with the latest</h2>Because of this, I make sure to watch the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> every day. If someone tests positive, then they're taken away to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098150456/shanghai-maintains-zero-covid-policy-but-the-u-n-says-it-is-not-sustainable?t=1653419079423">one of the central quarantine locations around Shanghai</a>: in Jiangwan stadium, or a designated hotel. I had a friend who tested positive one day, but then got negative results the next. When local authorities called her to take her to a quarantine location, she refused and they eventually let it go. I don't think they have the personnel to really enforce the policy for every single case. <h2>It seems like a lot of the world has moved on from the pandemic, but for some reason, <keyword id="11892748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword> is obsessed with having no cases</h2>It's hard when I see my family and friends back in Malaysia traveling and I'm stuck inside. I had a bit of a breakdown at the beginning of the lockdown, so now my friends and family send me a lot of nice messages. <div type="image" title="A deliveryman rides on the near-empty street during the phased lockdown triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak on April 9, 2022 in Shanghai, China." height="2074" width="3111" msid="91924905" hostid="261"></div>As a foreigner from Malaysia, I'm grateful to live here and to be able to work here. So I follow the rules, but the whole situation has definitely taken a toll on me. I'm not the only one. I know a lot of expats have left China, but there's no guarantee that you'll be let back in — even with a valid visa. I haven't seen my family in around three years, so it's something I think about.<h2>Even with our lockdown situations, so much of my life is here that it would be risky to leave it all behind</h2>It's wild to think that this all started in the spring. Now summer is here, and we're still in the same reality.It's very hard, but I've become pretty numb to it. I hope that we're able to leave soon, but there's just no way of knowing when that will happen.

I've been stuck inside for 2 months due to Shanghai's COVID-19 lockdowns. It's taken a toll on me.

Barely a week after imposing a lockdown on the unvaccinated, <keyword id="21177" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="austria" source="Orion">Austria</keyword> on Friday announced a full national <keyword id="8925953" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="covid-19-lockdown" source="Orion">Covid-19 lockdown</keyword> starting next week. Austria became the first country in the European Union to take such a measure in the face of the Covid-19 resurgence. Besides, it has also made vaccination mandatory from February 1, Euronews reported. The new measures announced by Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg on Friday morning will come into effect initially for 10 days starting Monday. Most stores will close, and cultural events will be cancelled. "We have to look reality in the face," Schallenberg was quoted as saying at a news conference. "We do not want a fifth wave. Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave," the Chancellor said, as reported by public broadcaster ORF. After 10 days, the effects will be assessed and if Covid cases don't drop sufficiently, the lockdown can be extended to a maximum of 20 days. However, according to Austria's Health Minister, schools would remain open for those who need to go there, but all parents have been asked to keep their children at home if possible. The lockdown comes as Covid infections soared in Austria in recent weeks. Daily case numbers have trebled in November, touching over 15,000 on Thursday. According to the latest figures, the incidence rate was 990.7 cases per 100,000 people in the past week, and Health Minister Wolfgang Mackstein said imposing a lockdown was the "last resort". The country's per capita infection rate is also the highest so far this year. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with many new Covid patients, and deaths have been rising again, the report said. Last Monday, Vienna had announced a nationwide lockdown for about two million unvaccinated people. Under this, people aged 12 years and older were banned from going outside except for essential activities such as work, attending classes, essential shopping, or going for a walk. The country has 65 per cent people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 -- one of the lowest rates in Western Europe. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) had warned that as Covid cases continue to mount in Europe and Central Asia, the regions are likely to see about 500,000 additional deaths before February 1. Hans Kluge, WHO's European Regional Director, attributed the increased risk to low mask use, vaccine hesitancy and spread of the more transmissible Delta variant. Many other European countries are also planning to reimpose restrictions in the wake of a steep rise in the number of cases, the BBC reported. Slovakia Prime Minister Eduard Heger has announced what he called a lockdown for the unvaccinated starting Monday. The country had reported a record 8,342 cases on Wednesday. The Czech government is also limiting access to a variety of services. The <keyword id="44173" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="netherlands" source="Orion">Netherlands</keyword> introduced a partial lockdown last weekend. German leaders have also agreed to introduce restrictions for unvaccinated people in areas with high Covid hospital admissions that would affect 12 of Germany's 16 states, the report said. Daily infections had hit a new German record of 52,826 on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/mindhouse-raises-6-million-in-seed-funding-led-by-binny-bansal/articleshow/87798613.cms">Flipkart's Binny Bansal bets on Zomato cofounder's two-year-old venture</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/farm-laws-timeline-important-milestones-from-their-enactment-to-withdrawal/slidelist/87795876.cms">Farm laws timeline – important milestones from their enactment to withdrawal</a>

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