Tailbacks stretching for several kilometers built up on Czech roads leading to the German border on Monday. The queues gathered a day after Germanyintroduced an almost blanket travel ban at its Czech and Austrian land borders, due to concerns about new COVID-19 variants. The variants are likely more contagious and resistant to vaccines. Under the new rules, only a handful of people are permitted to cross the border, including lorry drivers. Anyone crossing must provide proof of a recent negative COVID test. On the E50/D5, which leads to the German city of Nuremberg, a queue of lorries initially grew …
