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11.09pm GMT

Germany must bring down coronavirus infections in the next few weeks or risk new virus mutations that are resistant to vaccines and should impose night-time curfews in regions with high caseloads, according to a senior aide to chancellor Angela Merkel.

We are in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic," Merkel's chief of staff Helge Braun told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. The next few weeks will determine whether we can foreseeably get the pandemic under control."

10.47pm GMT

Hundreds gathered in Denmark's capital Copenhagen to protest against a controversial virus law and the country's plan to create so-called corona passports".
AFP reports:

Marching through the streets, the crowd of mostly younger people, lit fireworks during a march which an AFP correspondent at the scene described as mostly peaceful.