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Merkel Urges Conte to Socially Distance After Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19
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0:42Now PlayingEuropean Union leaders ended a two-day summit in Brussels on Friday with the usual messages about unity and togetherness - but it's emerged that during the event Germany's chancellor told Italy's prime minister to keep his distance.
However, this was no diplomatic incident - it was simply a matter of coronavirus precautions.
It happened on Thursday when Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte saw Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and went over to greet her with an elbow-bump.
But Merkel refused to extend her own elbow and asked Conte to maintain a safe distance from her.
She was following updated World Health Organisation guidelines that advise against elbow bumping, on the grounds that it still brings people too close together.
Other leaders at the summit weren't so cautious though, and appeared happy to bump elbows with the Italian leader.
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