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Germany’s coronavirus death toll tops 50,000 as EU discourages travel
Germany counted more than 50,000 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, figures released on Friday showed, as EU leaders “strongly discouraged” their constituents from non-essential travel.The Robert Koch Institute disease control centre said 859 people died from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 50,642.Germany survived the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic relatively well, but a second wave has hit Europe’s biggest economy hard.The…