COVID seems to have shrunk people’s lives
By DW
23 May 2021 |
4:46 pm
Almost 200,000 people in Germany live in residential care, two-thirds of them have mental disabilities. How have they experienced the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on their lives?
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