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EUROPE * Bavaria's premier warned of a fourth wave in Germany this autumn, while Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to get vaccinated to avoid overwhelming the health care system. * The German government will stop offering free coronavirus tests from Oct. 11 to encourage more vaccinations, sources said. * Austria plans to start vaccine booster shots on Oct. 17, nine months after the first group of people to get the jabs received their second dose, its health minister said. * Britain on Tuesday reported its highest daily COVID-19 death toll since March. ASIA-PACIFIC * Police in Thailand fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to disperse protesters who took to the streets of Bangkok amid anger over the government's handling of the pandemic, while the cabinet approved an additional $433.2 million support for frontliners. * South Korea recorded more than 2,000 new coronavirus infections in the last 21 hours, Yonhap News Agency reported on Tuesday, an almost 50% increase from the previous day and a new record high. * East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the Delta variant. * Australian authorities vowed to crank up policing of anti-COVID lockdown rules in Sydney, but dismissed suggestions that tougher measures, including a curfew, were needed after the city reported its biggest single-day new case number yet.