Germany puts new measures in place amid virus spike

Germany will require people arriving from countries deemed high risk, such as the United States, to take coronavirus tests starting this weekend, after the country recorded its highest daily tally of new infections in three months.

German officials have voiced alarm over a steady upward creep in the number of new infections over recent weeks.

The national disease control centre said 1,045 cases were recorded on Wednesday – the first time since 7 May that it has counted more than 1,000 new cases in a day.

In the US, the Trump administration rescinded its warnings to Americans against all international travel because of the pandemic, saying conditions no longer warrant a blanketworldwidealert. Warnings for about 20 locations have now been lifted.

France, however, is struggling to administer enough tests to keep up with demand. Many testing labs are closed so that their staff can take summer vacation.

Doctors and experts say the holiday crunch is just part of a larger web of failures in France’s testing strategy, which even the government’s own virus advisory panel this week called disorganized and “insufficient.”

A town of 32,000 people in northwestern Spain will begin lockdown today after a surge of new cases.

Authorities in the northwestern Castile and Leon region are quarantining Aranda de Duero after 103 new cases emerged.

Italy has also added another 402 cases and six more deaths to its tally.