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German man suspected of having 90 Covid jabs to sell vaccination cards
Police in Saxony investigate 60-year-old for issuing documents without authorisation and forgery
Read articleGermany is giving nearly two million workers a 25 percent pay rise
As many as 10 million workers could receive a pay rise in Germany under plans unveiled by the country's incoming government.
Read articleCar ban campaign in Berlin: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’
Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backers
Read articleCovid: Germany fears thousands got saline, not vaccine from nurse
Authorities in north Germany have asked more than 8,000 people to get repeat Covid vaccinations because a nurse is suspected of having injected saline instead of vaccine in many cases.
Read articleMerkel: Germany has not done enough to hit Paris climate targets
Chancellor says record on reducing carbon emissions ‘not sufficient’ as she reflects on 16-year leadership
Read articleGermany to go into hard Easter lockdown as Covid-19 infections soar
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday announced a hard five-day lockdown over Easter, as the country battles a sharp rise in new coronavirus infections.
Read articleGermany considers compulsory quarantines for people returning from abroad
Germany is considering making all people returning from abroad face quarantine and compulsory COVID-19 tests after infection rates jumped above the level at which authorities say hospitals will be overstretched.
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