GERMANY PERSPECTIVE

Berlin notes that tagesschau deployed a correspondent to Tenerife and tracked the return of German passengers hour by hour. The tone is informative and reassuring: repatriated Germans underwent medical examinations aboard before being allowed to disembark, and those without symptoms are free but under surveillance for 21 days. Tagesschau also covered the parachute drop on Tristan da Cunha — presented as the 'most spectacular dimension' of the crisis. DW Germany published an explainer on the virus: rodent transmission, its 15-40% mortality rate for some strains, and critically why it poses no pandemic risk. Germany's collective Covid memory is present in the background: Tagesschau explicitly notes that 'similar scenes in Tenerife revive memories' but insists on the fundamental differences.