Germany edges closer to lockdown with church, shop closures: Bild
Germany plans to close shops, limit restaurants’ opening hours and ban church services in further efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus threatening Europe’s biggest economy, its largest selling newspaper Bild reported on Monday.
‘It’s okay to feel scared’: Coronavirus brings countries close to standstill
Bars, restaurants, cinemas and schools were shutting down from New York and Los Angeles to Paris and Dubai in a worldwide effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic, as financial markets tumbled despite emergency action by global central banks.
Debt brake not hampering German response to coronavirus: Scholz spokesman
Germany’s federal government will stick to its debt brake rule, a spokesman for Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said, adding the regulation was not hampering the government’s ability to provide support for the economy as the coronavirus outbreak worsens.
Dress codes and dancing: Sudan sees culture thaw after Bashir
In Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a hip-hop producer who had his equipment seized during anti-government protests last year is now free to mix tracks in his studio.
Europe looks to suspend incoming travel over coronavirus: sources
Europe is looking to ban foreign nationals from coming into the Schengen open border zone, two sources said, as the continent scrambles to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Russian court backs move to let Putin stay in power despite outcry from some
Russia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled it was legal to change the country’s constitution in a way that could allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 2036, less than a week after Putin publicly backed the idea.
Coronavirus-hit British cruise ship finds refuge in Cuba
A British cruise ship that was turned away from several ports in the Caribbean after five passengers were confirmed to have the new coronavirus is setting sail to Cuba which is allowing it to dock, its owner Fred Olsen Cruise Lines wrote in a statement…
Many Venezuelans can’t afford to stay indoors as Caracas enters quarantine
Caracas woke on Monday to quiet streets and military checkpoints on the first day of a quarantine ordered by President Nicolas Maduro to combat the coronavirus, while many of the Venezuelan capital’s residents who did go out wore masks, often improvise…
Bolsonaro says no legal room to close Brazil borders due to coronavirus
Brazil lacks legislation that would let the government close its borders as some neighboring countries are doing, President Jair Bolsonaro said in a Monday radio interview regarding measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
Beijing tells Pompeo it is futile to smear China over virus
Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi has told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by telephone that attempts to smear China’s efforts to control the coronavirus “will not succeed”, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday.
