Prognosis
Germany Loses Control of Contact-Tracing for Covid-19
- Nation curbed outbreak better than neighbors last spring
- Merkel to propose new curbs in talks with state premiers
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As Europe reels from a resurgence of Covid-19, one bulwark against another lockdown is buckling: German contact tracers.
This spring, the country won praise for its can-do teams that worked the phones from 375 local health authorities, asking Covid patients to say who they had recently met and telling those contacts to quarantine.