### [2021-08-10](/feed/2021/08/10/index.md)

##### COVID-19 pandemic
# Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of 16 German states agree to phase out free COVID-19 testing for its citizens beginning from October 11 and will start requiring non-vaccinated people to show a negative test result to enter certain indoor venues as well as cultural, sport, and entertainment events once the infection rate in a region reaches 35 per 100,000 people unless they have been recovered from COVID-19 in order to pressure people to get vaccinated. 




### Sources:

1. [The Guardian](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/germany-to-abolish-free-covid-testing-in-bid-to-get-more-people-vaccinated)

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