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Covid-19: tense situation on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic

2021-02-21T20:13:21.698Z


Berlin has decided to close its doors to the Czech Republic, which faces incidence rates ten times higher than those of its big western neighbor.


Special envoy to Zittau and Liberec

When Germany closes its borders with the Czech Republic, accused of not being able to contain the epidemic, German citizens complain, and the Czechs approve.

This is the paradoxical result of the containment measures taken since February 14 by the federal government, the two Länder of Saxony and Bavaria, against their small eastern neighbor.

On an area of ​​the A 17 motorway, which links Prague to Dresden, transformed into an entrenched police camp, Pascal and Jörg brood over their annoyance at the wheel of their car.

Both wait until they have to take a test, billed at 35 euros, before returning home, to Germany, if it turns out to be negative.

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Abundantly tattooed, the first lives in Jena.

He is from Prague, where he visited a sick relative, and will be returning the next day.

He claims that no mutant of the virus is circulating in the Czech Republic and that the government's hidden goal is to prohibit its citizens from

"skiing abroad"

.

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Source: lefigaro

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