BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called an unexpected meeting with leaders of the federal states for Wednesday morning to discuss the coronavirus pandemic after they agreed early on Tuesday to extend the lockdown, government sources said.
The meeting comes as COVID-19 infections have been rising fast in a third wave of the pandemic in Germany.
(Reporting by Holger Hansen and Andreas Rinke, writing by Emma Thomasson, editing by Riham Alkousaa)
