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===German government response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-22)===
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In January 2020, Germany has confirmed the first case of [[COVID-19 pandemic in Germany|novel coronavirus]], found from Wuhan, China. In March 2020, Germany went to the national lockdowns, which was greatly affected by the pandemic, and greatly impact on German economy, healthcare system, and society, and also commended for being an effective model for instituting methods of curbing infections and deaths, but lost this status by the end of the year due to rising number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. In December 2020, COVID-19 vaccines began to be administered in Germany. Unfortunately, from June 2021 to the end of March 2022, Germany has might seeing a new surge of huge COVID-19 infection wave, fueled by the highly transmissible [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant|Delta]][[SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant|cron]] hybrid variant, which is combined of Delta and Omicron mutations. However, Germany has suffered from a recombination event of Deltacron, which was caused of less access to vaccine shortage in the first quarter. As of May 2022, Germany has reported 140,292 COVID-19-related deaths, the fifth highest mortality toll (Behind Russia, the United Kingdom, [[Italy]], and [[France]]), out of 2 million deaths in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Germany COVID – Coronavirus Statistics – Worldometer |url=https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany |website=worldometers.info |language=en}}</ref>

On 8 April 2022 just after the first two years of pandemic, Germany joined [[France]], [[Italy]], [[Netherlands]], [[Belgium]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Austria]], [[Switzerland]], [[Greece]], [[Turkey]], and [[Cyprus]] were lifted all COVID-19 restrictions, measures, and state of emergencies up in the future.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}