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Angela Merkel on Covid vaccines for Brits visiting Germany

Britain is a "high incidence" area but Germany will relax the need for quarantine rules for some travellers, Angela Merkel says.

The chancellor told a press conference at Chequers that UK citizens with two vaccines would be able to enter Germany "in the foreseeable future"

She was speaking with Boris Johnson at her final visit to Britain as German leader.

2 July 2021

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