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#BREAKING France slams Russia's Sputnik V vaccine as tool of 'propaganda and aggressive diplomacy'

#UPDATE France accuses Russia of using its Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine as a tool to spread Moscow's influence and message rather than as way to fight the global health crisis

#BREAKING Germany says it will use Russian vaccine if approved by the European Medicines Agency

#BREAKING Germany lists France as 'high risk' Covid area: health agency

#UPDATE Anyone travelling from France will need to produce a negative Covid-19 test that is less than 48 hours old upon entry, before beginning a 10-day quarantine period, Germany's Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said

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Daily Covid-19 cases in France have nearly doubled since the start of the month, with the number of people in intensive care now nearly the same level as during the second wave of the pandemic in November

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