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People crowd the main shopping street "Zeil" in the city center of Frankfurt am Main on December 15, 2020, on the last day of shopping before a partial lockdown to curb the spread of the ongoing novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. - Germany will go into a partial lockdown from December 16 with non-essential shops and schools to close, as Europe's biggest economy battles to halt an "exponential growth" in coronavirus infections. The new curbs will apply until January 10, 2021, with companies also urged to allow employees to work from home or offer extended company holidays, under the new measures agreed by Chancellor Merkel with regional leaders of Germany's 16 states on December 13. (Photo by Yann Schreiber / AFP) (Photo by YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images)