BRUSSELS/WARSAW - Armed with mass testing and tracing capabilities, a growing number of European countries are expressing confidence that they can avoid a return to economically-devastating coronavirus lockdowns.
"We can rule out that we will have to go back to the tough measures," Belgian Interior Minister Pieter De Crem told broadcaster VTM on Sunday . 'STAY WITH US' In the Czech Republic, which has had fewer than 9,000 cases, the government expects more targeted than blanket measures, while Serbia sees the possibility of local spikes, but says that reimposing a lockdown is unlikely.
Germany has seen its number of new coronavirus cases continue to fall since easing restrictions in early May, although there have been outbreaks at meat processing plants, old people's homes and at a religious service in Frankfurt in which more than 100 people were infected.
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