play. this is news live from berlin tougher restrictions look to be on the way for germany i made an already tight lockdown chancellor merkel brings forward talks with state leaders over what can be done to stay ahead of the more transmissible coded 19 variants also coming up in washington d.c. preparations for wednesday's inauguration are overshadowed by fears of further unrest at the capitol correspondents from support from behind the security cordon

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indicator that reflects new infections per 100000 people and as you can see here there is a slight downward trend from 154 in january 9th to $132.00 today but there is still a long way to go for that number to drop below 50 which is when the spread of the virus would be considered under control so germany is current measures are due to expire at the end of the month but now an extension and even stricter measures might be on the way. point straights and lynn and most who do venture out of wearing masks and it seems to be hoping there's been a slight drop in the number of coated 19 infections but the government is preparing to further touching restrictions in bilin is say that's a good thing. i think being strict to make sense and i'm hoping this will finally bring it all to an end and hope is a i really hope that we realize that we'll have to put up with these restrictions

until at least the summer and so when their new name perhaps they should lose chancellor angela merkel will discuss tougher restrictions with state leaders that made concerns that new virus mutations could cause a surge in new cases. into highly infectious variants of the corona virus have been detected in germany one variant of spray 3 great britain the other through south africa and at the moment we have further warring reports from brazil . always present in. some opposition politicians are calling on the government to do more to stop people from going to work. perhaps at least possible for about 40 percent of all office workers to work from home. only 14 percent did so we did better even during the 1st lock down so there is room for improvement. also on the agenda after varia made f f p 2 must

compulsory in shops and on public transport they have higher filtering capabilities .