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Germany bans social gatherings in public as death toll reaches almost 100 due to coronavirus
12:47 March 23, 2020 AA
Various shots of empty streets in central Cologne, Germany on March 22, 2020. Germany has tightened coronavirus restrictions on Sunday with banning any social contact between more than two people in public, as COVID-19 cases in the country surged close to 24,000. Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters in Berlin, after a video conference call with the premiers of 16 federal states, that they agreed on new restrictive measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.