Germany takes tentative steps back to normality as lockdown eases

Shops start reopening, but Merkel warns Germans to stay ‘disciplined and watchful’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs shops across parts of Germany took their first tentative steps back to normality since lockdown rules were introduced a month ago, Andreas Trost took stock at the window of a haberdashery in the Potsdam district of Babelsberg, west of Berlin.“Not exactly life as we’ve known it,” he said, reading the sign in the window