Chancellor urges tighter Covid measures before Christmas and says death rate is ‘unacceptable’

Angela Merkel has implored Germans to further reduce their social contacts before Christmas or risk losing loved ones, in an unusually emotional speech to parliament.

The German chancellor was furious in tone, her voice breaking, as she told MPs that the death rate was “unacceptable” and urged tighter measures.

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