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Passers-by in Cologne's pedestrian zone while wearing a mask: "We are facing a historic challenge"
Photo: Ying Tang / NurPhoto / Getty Images
Corona 2020 in numbers: Around 1.7 million Germans tested positive for Sars-CoV-2.
More than 30,000 people have died from or with the virus.
The federal, state and local governments have taken on almost 2.2 trillion euros in debt.
Almost 6 million employees took advantage of short-time working in April alone.
Almost 11 million students had to stay at home for weeks.
There is hardly an area of life that the pandemic has not affected.
A year ago, on December 31, 2019, China reported the occurrence of a puzzling lung disease to the World Health Organization, something like the official start of the global pandemic.
Just a few months ago Germany seemed to have come through the crisis comparatively well, but now, in the second wave, the tried and tested mechanisms have failed.
At the turn of the year the country is on the brink - can the spread of the virus be controlled again?
What remains of the crisis in 2020?
What damage is having an impact, what positive developments?
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