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#BREAKING Italy to impose quarantine on EU arrivals: ministry

#BREAKING Germany announces tougher land border checks: minister

#UPDATE Germany will step up random controls along its land borders to check that travellers arriving in the country are carrying a negative Covid test, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says

#UPDATE Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says the random checks will occur on German territory after vehicles have crossed into the country

#UPDATE Much of Italy remains under tight coronavirus restrictions as it battles a deadly third wave of infections, with the whole country facing a lockdown over the three-day Easter weekend starting on Saturday

#UPDATE The new measure will require anyone arriving from another EU country to show a negative coronavirus test before departing for Italy and a second after five days of self-isolation

#UPDATE Italy will impose a five-day quarantine on travellers arriving from other EU countries, both residents and foreigners, a source in the health ministry tells @AFP
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#UPDATE Germany says it will step up random controls at its land borders to ensure people are carrying a negative coronavirus test upon arrival, amid concern that Easter holiday trips could worsen the country's third Covid wave
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