(ANSA-AFP) - BERLINO, 24 GIU - German authorities on Tuesday ordered a new lockdown for an entire district -- the first since easing coronavirus restrictions and a major setback to hopes of a swift return to normality. "For the first time in Germany, we will return an entire district to the measures that applied several weeks ago," Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, said. "We will reintroduce a lockdown in the district of Guetersloh," he said, adding that the restrictions that cover 360,000 people and will be valid until at least June 30. The move came after a coronavirus outbreak at a slaughterhouse in the town of Rheda-Wiedenbrueck that has left more than 1,500 workers out of a total of nearly 7,000 infected The outbreak in Germany's most populous state is the biggest since the country began lifting the lockdown in early May.

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