One of the first things he did was scrap Merkel's plans for a new two-week countrywide lockdown.
That lockdown was not a completely unfounded suggestion though, given that both the number of infected and the number of new cases/day are twice as high as during last year's peak [1] -- and last year's peak was around Christmas, not in November.
That lockdown was not a completely unfounded suggestion though, given that both the number of infected and the number of new cases/day are twice as high as during last year's peak [1] -- and last year's peak was around Christmas, not in November.
[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/#g...