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Coronavirus: Drive-thru Christmas market is Germany's answer to partial COVID-19 lockdown

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A Bavarian innkeeper has responded to the closure of bars in Germany due to the coronavirus by opening a drive-thru Christmas market on Thursday, complete with artificial snow that falls as customers drive through.

Patrick Schmidt is trying to recreate the same Christmas market festive feeling in Landshut, northeast of Munich.

"It was a spontaneous idea because of the second lockdown," he beamed at the opening of the drive-in market on Thursday.

Germany is in the midst of a month-long 'lockdown light' under which bars, restaurants, theatres and museums are closed and the health minister said he expects the restrictions imposed to curb the pandemic will continue through winter.

Around 160 million visitors usually descend on Germany's 2,500 Christmas markets each year to sip mulled wine among wooden huts. But many - including the world-famous Nuremberg market - have been called off this year due to the coronavirus.

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