The EU Commission has called on member states to adopt a 'coordinated approach' to tackling the spread of coronavirus after Germany imposed partial closures along its southern border. Border officials have been filtering crossings from Austria's Tyrol region and the Czech Republic since Sunday amid concerns over new coronavirus variants. Berlin says it will also not rule out imposing restrictions on its frontier with France, where cases of the South African strain are on the rise. Restrictions have particularly impacted the transit of goods on one of Europe's major truck routes between Germany and Austria's Tyrol region. There's exceptions for truck drivers as well as essential workers but so far, roughly every second person was denied entrance to Germany.