The German government is expected to make a decision within hours which could mean all travellers from Britain would have to quarantine for two weeks, even if they are vaccinated.
Germany s new health minister Karl Lauterbach said today the country now was racing to secure more vaccines to speed up its booster campaign that was at the centre of its strategy against the new variant.
Experts in Germany say we're unprepared for the inevitable: Hundreds of thousands of omicron infections per day. That is how infectious the new variant is.
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Scientists and Berlin's Humboldt University have criticized Bild after the paper blamed scientists for COVID restrictions. The tabloid ran pictures of three scientific researchers, labeling them "lockdown makers."