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Silent nights: Germany tightens virus lockdown over holidays

by Frank Jordans
| December 14, 2020 12:03 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Most stores shut, tight limits on social contacts, no singing in church and a ban on fireworks sales: Germany is ratcheting up its pandemic restrictions in an effort to cut the stubbornly high rate of coronavirus infections.

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