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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Barbenheimer-style gatherings blamed for Covid rise in Germany

Tourists at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, south-west of Berlin, in early August.
Tourists at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. Germans are being encouraged to get booster jabs in autumn if they belong to a higher-risk group. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Images

German epidemiologists are warning of a summer wave of coronavirus infections, blaming in part mass gatherings such as the Barbenheimer double feature craze.

The government’s disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), says that while infections remain low compared with at the height of the pandemic, they have been on the rise for the past month.

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