Germany's third virus wave 'appears to have broken': health minister

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Germany seems to have halted a surge of coronavirus infections driven by the British variant, Health Minister Jens Spahn said, cautioning however against lifting restrictions precipitously.

“The third wave appears to have broken,” Spahn told a press conference in Berlin.

“The infection figures are dropping again, but we are still at a high level. They are not yet falling everywhere at the same rate, but they are falling,” he said.

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