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Added on the 31/03/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the Covid-19 pandemic will be over when "the world chooses to end it", adding "we have all the tools we need, but the world has not used those tools well". SOUNDBITE
Vehicles cross the Franco-German border at Cocheren in the Moselle and Nassweiler in Saarland, as Germany prepares to restrict crossings from France from midnight on Tuesday, after classifying the Moselle department as a high-risk Covid zone. IMAGES
Lorry drivers, stuck in the UK, get tested for Covid-19 to cross the Channel at Dover port. France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but thousands of truckers faced being stranded for days near the port of Dover. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex talks by video-conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, their first exchange since Castex took office. They discuss the measures taken in France, Germany and Europe to deal with Covid-19, as well as the recent terrorist attacks on the continent. IMAGES
25 German army soldiers were called in to help health authorities test employees at a large slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, North Rhine-Westphalia, where more than 700 positive cases of COVID-19 were detected. IMAGES