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Bavaria Tightens Covid Lockdown and Declares Disaster Situation

Customers in their cars receive goods at a drive-in Christmas market in Landshut, Germany, on Nov. 26.

Photographer: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

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The German state of Bavaria is tightening its coronavirus lockdown regime, mostly banning people from leaving their homes starting from Dec. 9 and formally declaring a “disaster situation.”