COVID-19: Germany considers restrictions for unvaccinated people amid warning of 'really terrible Christmas' as cases surge

The head of Germany's disease control agency has warned that the country faces a 'really terrible Christmas' unless steps are taken to counter the sharp rise in coronavirus infections. 'We are currently heading toward a serious emergency,' the director of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, said. 'We are going to have a really terrible Christmas if we don't take countermeasures now.'