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The country has been in a corona shutdown for almost three weeks, and there is a crowd on the shopping streets of the republic, at least on weekends.
On the second Saturday of November, laser scanners counted almost 50,000 passers-by in Hamburg's Spitalerstrasse, 7,000 more than a week earlier.
And just as many as at the end of September (details on the counting process here).
It looked similar to Hamburg in many cities in Germany this weekend.
People flocked to the centers to shop, stroll or have a coffee with others.
No matter how often the Chancellor can appeal to citizens to stay at home and avoid groups: The images from the city centers show that in the eighth month of the pandemic, many people long for normalcy - and are significantly more mobile than during the first shutdowns.
Back then, in March and April, more people withdrew to their homes.
The mobility of Germans fell within two weeks by 40 percent, in large cities even by up to 53 percent, as researchers at Berlin's Humboldt University calculated.
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