Angela Merkel humiliation: Vaccine delay sparks EU WAR as efforts branded 'winter failure'

The country’s death toll jumped to 952 on Wednesday, the highest daily increase on record, as shops, schools and nurseries shutting for the emergency Christmas lockdown.

Der Spiegel magazine has described her strategy as “The winter failure” and suggests the country has “squandered the gains it made this spring” in dealing with the virus.

The nation’s best selling newspaper, Bild, wrote of the second lockdown: “The bitter truth is that Germany has to close not solely because of corona but also because of the political handling of corona.”

Bild noted the delayed vaccine rollout in Germany despite the fact BioNTech is based in Mainz.

It said in a separate editorial: “It’s just beyond belief.

source: express.co.uk