* “We have clear signs: The third wave in Germany has already begun,” Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, told reporters during a news conference Friday.
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel had previously warned the country could be caught in a third wave of infections if restrictive public health measures were lifted too quickly.
* Italy, meanwhile, is reportedly set to impose another near national lockdown over the Easter weekend in an effort to curb the spread of the virus.
LONDON — The head of Germany’s public health agency on Friday warned that a third wave of coronavirus infections has already begun.
It comes at a time when the country has started to gradually relax lockdown restrictions, amid a government-led effort to speed up its vaccination roll out to as many adults as possible.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had previously warned the country could be caught in a third wave of infections if restrictive public health measures were lifted too quickly.
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Update #1: Two-Thirds of Italians Set For Lockdown as Pandemic Worsens (Bloomberg)
Update #2: Italy braces for new Covid-19 restrictions as 'third wave' begins (France 24)
Update #3: Coronavirus digest: Germany's 'third wave has begun' (DW)
WNU Editor: France's hospitals are being overwhelmed .... French hospitals to transfer Covid-19 patients as critical cases reach three-month high (France 24).
Eastern Europe is being clobbered .... Eastern Europe Covid Outbreak Overwhelms Countries as Vaccine Rollout Speeds up (Bloomberg)
The Covid-19 coronavirus has proven itself to be very resilient .... COVID-19 Cases Are Rising in Europe. How Did It Go Wrong? (Time). More here .... Germany's COVID management: World wonders what's gone wrong (DW).
But the big worry is that vaccines are not helping (so far) .... Vaccines fail to check COVID wave overwhelming Eastern Europe (Stars and Stripes).
