School children were taught social distancing as they stood 5 feet apart at a playground in Germany today. The images showed pupils lining up under the watchful eye of a teacher at the Petri primary school in Dortmund, as they returned to the classroom after weeks of lockdown.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has allowed the oldest primary school children to return today and younger children will follow next week.
The country is now planning to lift a range of measures after leader Angela Merkel gave the green light yesterday. Merkel had announced steps to ease the lockdown and launched an "emergency brake" mechanism allowing for renewed restrictions in case infections pick up again. "We can afford to take a little courage, but we need
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