Merkel threatens to centralise Covid response as some states refuse to act
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#5FXK5)
Chancellor complains her government does not yet have power to impose national lockdown
Angela Merkel has threatened to centralise Germany's pandemic response as several of the country's federal states refuse to implement an emergency brake mechanism on easing restrictions in spite of rapidly rising infection rates.
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