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15 Sep 2020 / 18:49

(CGTN Europe). European ministers, health experts and World Health Organization officials are set to discuss Europe’s COVID-19 response and its strategy for health for the next five years, over the next two days.

- Germany’s number of daily new infections rose by 1,407 in the past 24 hours, brining the cumulative total to 261,762. Fatalities also rose, by 12 to 9,362.

- Irish airline Ryanair has said it expects the European Commission to unveil a new travel system that will allow people to travel across most regions of the continent without quarantine.

- There has been a sharp rise in road traffic congestion on the outskirts of London compared with last year, as people return to their cars following lockdown, according to data from the Waze for Cities program.

- European ministers, health experts and World Health Organization officials are set to discuss Europe’s COVID-19 response and its strategy for health for the next five years, over the next two days.

- Czechia’s reproduction, or R, rate has risen to 1.59, according to the country’s Institute of Health Information and Statistics (UZIS), as cases continue to surge across the nation.

- Slovakia has announced it is to put Czechia on it’s "red list" of high-risk countries due to a recent surge of cases in the country.

- Online retail sales in France have risen by 5.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter as people turn to remote shopping amid the pandemic.