Arrests at anti-lockdown rally in Berlin as Merkel announces nationwide COVID-19 ’emergency brake’

Subscribe to our channel! German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country’s COVID-19 ‘emergency brake’ was long overdue as her cabinet approved legal changes granting the federal government more powers to impose restrictions across the country. The amendment to the existing Infection Protection Act is yet to be voted on by the German parliament. Meanwhile, protesters from the ’Querdenker’ anti-COVID movement rallied outside the German parliament. Following scuffles with police, several protesters were arrested.