Germans must reduce travel, partying to fight COVID-19, says Merkel aide


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  • Monday, 12 Oct 2020

Tables and chairs of a closed restaurant are pictured during the late-night curfew due to restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as city wide bars and restaurants have to close at 11pm (2100 GMT) until 6am (0400 GMT), in Berlin, Germany, October 11, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany should continue capping the number of people allowed at gatherings and clamp down on unnecessary travel as the country battles rising coronavirus infections, an aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

"We must be a bit stricter in places where infection chains spread mostly, which is parties and, unfortunately, also travel," the chancellor's chief of staff, Helge Braun, told public broadcaster ARD.

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