Several police officers were injured Saturday in clashes with residents of a building in Göttingen in central Germany. The latter have been placed in quarantine since 120 out of 700 residents tested positive for coronavirus.
The scenes of violence erupted when a group of residents tried to force their way through a metal barrier put in place to keep them at home. Some threw stones, bottles and wooden slats at the police, Göttingen police chief Uwe Luehrig told reporters.
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These residents of the residence were placed in quarantine Thursday after the discovery among them of two cases of contamination. The following day, 120 inhabitants were in turn tested positive.
Göttingen is one of the sources of contamination in Germany since the lifting of restrictions imposed in May because of the epidemic. More than 1,300 slaughterhouse workers out of a total of nearly 7,000 have tested positive in North Rhine-Westphalia in the west of the country. "We cannot rule out general confinement," Armin Laschet, the state’s head of government, said on Sunday.
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