Merkel says coronavirus presents gravest crisis since WWII

BERLIN — In a rare televised message, something previously reserved for her New Year speeches, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday impressed upon the country’s 87 million people that they face their gravest crisis since World War II.

She said she was addressing the people in this “unusual format” — for the first time during her 14 years at the helm — to share the details of what is guiding her as chancellor.

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“It is serious,” she said. “Take it seriously.”
Merkel’s remarks were an indication that the weight of the pandemic was being felt in Berlin, after what some criticized as a slow and haphazard German response, lacking in central leadership.
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Merkel initially played an almost invisible role. It was not until after Germany’s biggest tabloid, Bild, questioned her absence — with the front page headline “No appearance, no speech, no leadership in the crisis” — that Merkel made her first public comments on March 11.
Germany’s efforts have been hampered by the logistics of having to coordinate among the 16 health ministers and state premiers across the country, who ultimately bear responsibility for enacting — or not, as the case has been on occasion — central recommendations from the Robert Koch Institute, the federal agency responsible for infectious disease control.

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Merkel says coronavirus presents gravest crisis since WWII

Merkel says coronavirus presents gravest crisis since WWII

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