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Now playing Next Germany Germany steps up restrictions for EU countries amid COVID-19 surge Several regions of Bulgaria and Romania were classified as "high-risk" by Germany's disease control centre. 08/08/2020
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Now playing Next United Kingdom Belgium, Andorra and Bahamas added to UK's COVID-19 quarantine list The UK is keeping its quarantine list under review, having already reimposed quarantines on people arriving in the country from Spain and Luxembourg. 07/08/2020
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Now playing Next United Kingdom Lockdown reimposed on Aberdeen after cluster of COVID-19 cases A cluster of 54 cases linked to a single bar in the Scottish city has led to a reimposing of restrictions aimed at avoiding a "significant outbreak". 06/08/2020
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Now playing Next No Comment Buddhist festival held without spectators in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's annual Esala Perahera festival is held in the inland city of Kandy. 05/08/2020
Now playing Next World News COVID-19: Cases jump in Germany, France and Spain On Thursday, Germany's health minister Jens Spahn said there were a lot of small outbreaks and that "people are getting infected at family parties, at their place of work or at community facilities.” 05/08/2020