COVID-19 infections rise in Germany

Published November 11, 2021 at 12:52 PM EST

Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson checks in with NPR’s Robert Schmitz in Berlin about Germany facing a fourth COVID-19 wave and the country’s new measures to tackle the virus.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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