Chancellor Angela Merkel faces further pressure to lay out a path to ease Germany’s coronavirus lockdown after Finance Minister Olaf Scholz became the latest senior official to call for a quicker reopening of Europe’s largest economy.

在财政部长奥拉夫·肖尔茨(Olaf Scholz)成为最新一位呼吁加快德国这个欧洲最大经济体重新开放的高级官员后，总理安格拉·默克尔(Angela Merkel)面临进一步的压力，需要制定出缓解德国冠状病毒封锁的路径。

Scholz -- the vice chancellor and the Social Democratic candidate to succeed Merkel in September’s election -- threw his weight behind proposals to move away from a reliance on using the seven-day incidence rate to manage Germany’s pandemic and focus on ramping up testing.

肖尔茨是德国副总理，也是社会民主党候选人，有望在9月的选举中接替默克尔。他支持一项提议，即不再依赖使用七天发病率来管理德国的疫情，而是将重点放在加强检测上。

As more aggressive variants spread, the measure of new infections has been inching back up, moving the country further from targets Merkel has set for loosening curbs. Her coronavirus cabinet, which includes Scholz, met on Monday to prepare for a critical meeting with state leaders on Wednesday.

随着更激进的病毒变种的传播，新感染的数量一直在缓慢回升，使德国进一步偏离了默克尔设定的放松管制的目标。她的冠状病毒内阁(包括肖尔茨)周一举行了会议，为周三与国家领导人的重要会议做准备。

Increased testing “must have an impact on what is possible in terms of moves to open up,” Scholz said late Sunday in an interview with the Bild newspaper. “It’s not going to happen all at once, but there must be a step-by-step process that everyone can understand.”

Scholz在周日晚些时候接受《图片报》采访时表示，增加测试“必须对开放的可能举措产生影响”。“这不会一蹴而就，但必须有一个人人都能理解的循序渐进的过程。”

To facilitate a faster reopening, he said he wants companies to test workers and citizens to be able to get free Covid-19 checks. His comments indicate a growing consensus in Germany to focus less on the incidence rate to determine pandemic policy.

他表示，为了加快重新开放，他希望企业为工人和公民进行检测，使他们能够获得免费的Covid-19检查。他的评论表明，在德国，越来越多的人同意减少对发病率的关注，以决定大流行政策。

Merkel opened the door to the move last week, saying testing could create a “buffer” to allow for opening above her target of 35 new cases per 100,000 people over seven days. The figure rose to 65.8 on Monday, according to the RKI public health institute.

默克尔上周为这一举措打开了大门，称检测可以创造一个“缓冲”，使其在七天内的新增病例超过她的目标——每10万人新增35例病例。据RKI公共卫生研究所称，这一数字在周一升至65.8。

Germany’s outbreak receded steadily after peaking just before Christmas, but the downward trend has been halted for around two weeks, prompting fears that more virulent strains of the disease could trigger another surge in cases.

德国的疫情在圣诞节前达到顶峰后稳步下降，但下降趋势已经停止了大约两周，这引发了人们的担忧，即更致命的病毒株可能会引发病例的再次激增。

While some children have returned to schools and hairdressers were allowed to reopen on Monday, most of Germany’s lockdown restrictions remain in place. With the pandemic-weary public growing restless ahead of national elections, some officials are keen to ease the strain, while others are more cautious.

虽然一些儿童已经回到学校，理发店也被允许在周一重新开放，但德国的大部分封锁限制仍然存在。在全国大选前，公众对流感感到厌倦，越来越焦躁不安，一些官员热衷于缓解压力，而另一些官员则更为谨慎。

Merkel and the state premiers are set to agree on a broad extension of current lockdown measures until the end of this month, including shuttered non-essential stores, restaurants, gyms and cultural venues, Business Insider magazine reported Monday, citing government sources it did not identify by name.

《商业内幕》(Business Insider)杂志周一援引未具名的政府消息人士的话报道称，默克尔和各州总理将就广泛延长目前的封锁措施，直至本月底，包括关闭非必要的商店、餐馆、健身房和文化场所。

At the same time, officials want to lay out a timetable for a gradual easing of curbs beyond March that relies on reducing the incidence rate to 70, rather than 35, the magazine said. A broad extension of current restrictions to the end of the month is one option being considered, a person familiar with the discussion told Bloomberg.

该杂志称，与此同时，官员们希望制定一个时间表，在3月之后逐步放宽限制，具体取决于将发病率降低到70，而不是35。一位知情人士对彭博社(Bloomberg)表示，正在考虑的一种选择是将目前的限制措施广泛延长至本月底。

Markus Soeder -- Bavaria’s premier and a potential chancellor candidate for Merkel’s conservative bloc -- warned against a hasty opening.

巴伐利亚州总理、默克尔保守阵营的潜在总理候选人马库斯·苏德(Markus Soeder)警告称，不要仓促开幕。

“The situation is unstable, and the numbers are rising again,” Soeder said on Monday in a virtual press conference with his counterpart from the state of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer. “We should not lose our nerve now” and risk a third wave.

"形势不稳定，死亡人数再次上升，" Soeder周一在与萨克森州同行Michael Kretschmer举行的新闻发布会上表示。“我们现在不应该失去勇气”冒着第三次浪潮的风险。

Instead, Soeder called on Merkel’s federal government to change Germany’s vaccine strategy, which would allow the immediate use of unused doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s vaccine.

相反，Soeder呼吁默克尔的联邦政府改变德国的疫苗策略，允许立即使用阿斯利康公司(AstraZeneca Plc)的未使用剂量疫苗。

At Wednesday’s meeting between Merkel and other state leaders, there could only be small opening steps and each would have to be secured with more widespread testing, Kretschmer said. Both Bavaria and Saxony have high infection rates in their border regions with the Czech Republic, where the mutations are spreading at a fast rate.

克雷奇默表示，在周三默克尔和其他国家领导人的会晤中，可能只有很小的开放步骤，而且每一步都必须通过更广泛的测试来确保。巴伐利亚州和萨克森州在它们与捷克共和国的边境地区都有高感染率，在那里突变正在快速传播。

With the country’s inoculation campaign slowly ramping up, the country’s STIKO vaccination committee is poised to reconsider its decision not to recommend AstraZeneca’s vaccine for people 65 and older.

随着国家的疫苗接种运动的缓慢增加，国家的STIKO疫苗接种委员会准备重新考虑其决定，不推荐阿斯利康的疫苗为65岁及以上的人。

“There will be a new updated recommendation very soon,” Thomas Mertens, head of the committee, said over the weekend. Last month, Germany decided to keep its recommendation for the vaccine to be administered only to people between the ages of 18 and 64, saying there were insufficient data on its effectiveness for older recipients.

委员会主席托马斯•默滕斯(Thomas Mertens)周末表示:“很快就会有一份新的更新建议。”上个月，德国决定保留只对18岁至64岁人群接种疫苗的建议，称没有足够的数据表明该疫苗对年龄更大的人有效。

More Than 241 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

超过2.41亿次接种:Covid-19疫苗跟踪

The situation across the European Union is looking increasingly alarming, after a stuttering start to the bloc’s vaccination campaign. Italy is tightening restrictions in Milan, Turin and other areas, the Czech Republic will impose its toughest lockdown yet, and Germany introduced a test requirement at its border with the French Moselle region to tackle the spread of mutations.

在欧盟的疫苗接种运动断断续续地开始之后，整个欧盟的情况看起来越来越令人担忧。意大利正在米兰、都灵和其他地区收紧限制，捷克共和国将实施迄今为止最严厉的封锁，德国在其与法国摩泽尔区(Moselle)的边境地区引入了检测要求，以应对突变的传播。

Austria extended most lockdown measures for the majority of the country on Monday following government meetings with scientists, opposition parties and provincial governors in Vienna. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz precluded even outdoor dining until the beginning of April as incidence rates in eastern regions of the country doubled to about 200 over the last month. Only restaurants and cafes in the far-western province of Vorarlberg got permission to re-open from March 15 following a decline in infections.

周一，奥地利政府在维也纳与科学家、反对党和省长举行会议后，延长了该国大部分地区的封锁措施。直到4月初，总理塞巴斯蒂安·库尔茨甚至禁止在户外就餐，因为该国东部地区的发病率在上个月翻了一番，达到约200人。由于感染病例减少，只有位于遥远西部的Vorarlberg省的餐馆和咖啡馆从3月15日开始获准重新营业。

Read more: Merkel Signals She’s Ready to Rethink German Lockdown Plan

阅读更多:默克尔暗示她准备重新考虑德国封锁计划

While arguing for a cautious lifting of restrictions, Scholz warned that Germany shouldn’t move too fast and risk having to reimpose lockdown measures.

虽然肖尔茨主张谨慎地解除限制，但他警告说，德国不应该行动太快，冒着不得不重新实施封锁措施的风险。

“What we cannot allow is an opening up and then shortly after have to close down again because we have miscalculated and the infection rates are rising dramatically again,” Scholz said. “But if we can somehow stabilize things and improve the situation with the help of tests and progress on vaccination, then we have more options.”

肖尔茨说:“我们不能允许的是，由于我们的计算错误，感染率再次急剧上升，所以在开放之后不久又不得不关闭。”“但如果我们能在测试和疫苗接种方面取得进展的帮助下，以某种方式稳定局势，改善情况，那么我们就有更多的选择。“