Germany Steps Up Virus Checks at French Border to Fight Variants
- Measures stop short of controls at Austrian, Czech borders
- Variant spread in Moselle area shows risk to EU free movement
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Germany imposed a Covid-19 test requirement along a stretch of the French border to fight the spread of virus mutations, underscoring the pandemic’s threat to maintaining open borders in the European Union.