Angela Merkel ‘The Fight Against Coronavirus Is Just Begining’ – Angela Merkel 1

German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has stated during an address she gave at the German lower house of Parliament, Bundestag today April 23rd 2020, that the world is just beginning its fight against the deadly novel Coronavirus, that the German people and the world shouldn’t be misled and start to think we’re nearing the end of it as quite a lot of people are have been made to believe.

Angela Merkel gave a report of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with a continuing rising death toll current at 5,315 now recorded in Germany and 183,424 deaths worldwide as on Thursday morning.

“We are not living in the final phase of the pandemic, but still at the beginning,” she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

“We have won time,” Merkel said, adding that this had been used well to bolster Germany’s healthcare system.

She also distanced herself from US President Donald Trump’s pause in U.S. funding to the World Health Organisation says the UN Health body is an indispensable partner for Germany.

“The WHO is an indispensable partner and we support it in its mandate,” Merkel added

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