The country has issued a ban on civil servants and workers in state-owned and private companies taking leave around Christmas and New Year, in a strong pre-emptive measure to avoid a Covid-19 flare-up.
This will affect about 4.2 million civil servants and two million workers in the state-owned companies, and many more in private firms.
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