Union minister Sadanand Gowda tweets details of Remdesivir allocation to states After detailed review of statewise allotment of #Remdesivir with @Pharmadept, substantial increase has been made in… https://t.co/BSQh2FPbm5— Sadananda Gowda (@DVSadanandGowda) 1619281671000 09:06 (IST) Apr 25 Angela Merkel defends 'tough' emergency Covid-19 measures amid third wave German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a video address on Saturday defended "tough" new coronavirus restrictions amid the third wave and urged German citizens to "do what is necessary again" to slow the Covid-19 pandemic."This is something new in our fight against the pandemic and I am convinced that it is urgently needed because we are in the middle of the third wave," Merkel said, reported euronews.Defending the emergency brake measures, Merkel said that the government had weighed whether such tough efforts were necessary."As much as one would wish there were less burdensome ways to break and reverse the third wave - they don't exist," she concluded, explaining that infections were too high for testing and tracing to be a sufficient means to drive down case numbers, reported euronews.