France has been hit much harder by the pandemic than Germany: more deaths, tougher restrictions, poorer economic prospects – and more fear among the citizens.
On Monday evening, when shoppers were walking through German city centers for the first time, France reached a “symbolic and painful milestone”. This is what the Director-General for Health, Jerome Salomon, called it when he presented the corona figures every day – more than 20,000 people have died in France as a result of the pandemic. Germany had less than 5,000 deaths at that time.
