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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

Covid news – live: German minister says citizens will be ‘vaccinated, recovered or dead’ by end of winter

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Anti-Covid restrictions protests in Brussels

Amid skyrocketing Covid cases, Germany’s health minister said that not enough people had come forward for their vaccinations, and issued a grim warning.

“It’s probable by the end of winter that pretty much everyone in Germany will have been vaccinated, recovered or died,” health minister Jens Spahn said, adding that anyone who had not received a vaccine would “likely” be infected in the coming months.

He urged the millions of Germans who have not yet come forward for a jab to do so.

Meanwhile, Austria entered a 10-day lockdown as protests against restrictions have broken out across Europe amid surging infection rates across the continent.

Despite protests against the measures, people are being told to work from home and non-essential shops are now closed in what is the central European nation's fourth lockdown.

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