Germany to impose tighter Covid rules after highest daily death rate

Five-person limit on groups will come in on 1 December with rules easing over Christmas

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Angela Merkel has agreed with leaders of Germany's 16 federal states to extend and tighten measures against coronavirus until at least 20 December - and they are likely to extend them into January, she said late on Wednesday.

This is absolutely not the time to sound the all-clear," she told journalists, after the number of deaths from the virus reached a daily record.