Record number of deaths in the country; Burning issue still is: Who will replace her?

Yet, another topic is slowly returning to focus: the parliamentary elections and the departure of the chancellor.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) registered 1.188 new deaths within 24 hours - a new record. In addition, 31.849 new infections were reported. But RKI assumes that the actual numbers could be even higher - because in the weeks of holidays around Christmas and New Year, fewer people go to the doctor, fewer samples are taken and fewer laboratory tests are performed, Deutsche Welle writes.
So, pandemic remains a top topic in Germany. The current decision of the German government and the province, to extend the lockdown until the end of January, was made in the middle of the first public opinion poll this year, which is regularly conducted by the Infratest Dimap Institute entitled ARD-DeutschlandTREND. However, since the lockdown was expected to continue, the picture of the mood of the citizens is still valid.
Half of the respondents stated that the existing measures should be maintained in any case. About a third of the respondents were in favor of tightening the measures, and only every sixth German citizen was in favor of easing the lockdown measures.

The Minister of Health dropped to third place

One new topic has occupied researchers: in the meantime, vaccination against COVID-19 has started in Germany as well. But the dose of vaccines is small for now. A lot has been written and said about it in the German media - who could be to blame for that. Was it correct that the EU agreed to negotiate with producers together, and not each country for itself? First of all, the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, could hear a lot of criticism on his own account. This, of course, was reflected in the research of the "Deutschland Trend"...