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Romanian seasonal workers wait outside the Avram Iancu international airport, in Cluj, central Romania, today
GERMANY began flying in cheap labour from eastern European countries today to pick its harvests, imposing strict restrictions on their activities to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Two planeloads of Romanian workers arrived in Berlin and Dusseldorf in a new programme that isolates them in small groups and gives them medical checks on arrival.
They must then work in a unit separated from other farmhands, wearing special gear.
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