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Jessica Bateman

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Jessica Bateman is a freelance writer based between London and Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel alongside Peter Tschentscher, Mayor of Hamburg, at a news conference on reducing coronavirus restrictions

How coronavirus restored German faith in experts – and Angela Merkel

Gangelt was the town worst affected by coronavirus in the Heinsberg district

How ‘Germany’s Wuhan’ created the blueprint for fighting coronavirus

A couple walk past a florist on the first day of the easing of some restrictions in Lueneburg, Germany

Germany begins lifting coronavirus lockdown as small shops reopen

Staff take care of Covid-19 patients arriving from France at the airport in Essen, Germany

Germany treating dozens of coronavirus patients from Italy and France