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Chelsea complete £47m Werner deal
Chelsea have announced the signing of RB Leipzig and Germany International striker Timo Werner ahead of…
COVID-19: Germany donates €26m to Nigeria
Germany on Monday announced the donation of €26m to support Nigeria’s COVID-19 response. The German Missions…
A first charter flight carrying Europeans to China following weeks of lockdown departed Germany’s biggest hub Frankfurt late Friday, carrying around 200 workers and their families. On arrival, “we expect we’ll have very long checks, fever measurements, corona tests, antibody tests, and then we’ll have to go into a 14-day quarantine,” said Bernd Poth. The quality control worker for Volkswagen subsidiary Audi was one of just a few people dwarfed by the echoing departures hall of Frankfurt’s Terminal 1, as he arrived with rolling luggage and facemasks to check in with his partner and young son. Like others on board the flight, which was operated by German flag carrier Lufthansa, Poth had returned from China in February before Beijing closed its borders to incoming travellers, stranding the family in Germany. READ ALSO: FG probes states, agencies over diversion of COVID-19 funds Chinese infection control measures are expected to be strict, as Poth said the Europeans could face a second two-week quarantine after travelling on from destination airport Tianjin to Beijing. “We’re not worried about safety, but we’ve got some concerns about the quarantine, we don’t know what will be waiting for us over there,” said aircraft components worker Alexander Ophoven. Up until almost the last moment, “it was unclear whether this flight would be leaving or not,” he said. China just this week decided to loosen a cap on inbound flights that was set at 407 per week. But even with triple the arrivals showing up from June, the number remains a fraction of the roughly 9,000 a week handled by the country’s airports before the pandemic.
While Beijing arranged emergency flights to repatriate its citizens stranded abroad as the virus spread around…
Nigerian priest to leave German parish over death threats
Patrick Asomugha, a priest from Nigeria is set to leave a parish in Germany after receiving…
Germany to conduct 500,000 coronavirus tests per week
Germany has boosted its coronavirus test rate to 500,000 a week, a virologist said Thursday, adding…
Coronavirus vaccine research not for sale, Germany tells US
Germany’s foreign minister said Monday the rights to coronavirus vaccine research were not for sale, following…
US: Britain, France, Germany send message to Iran as Macron reveals next action
France, Britain and Germany have told the grieving Iran to refrain from any violent action and…
Nigeria, Germany sign new deal
The Federal Government on Friday in Abuja signed a €70million financing bilateral agreement with the Republic…