Brief slowing down in number of new cases - getting ready for winter
Spain is considering extending its nationwide furlough scheme, which guarantees workers part of their income while they are sidelined during the pandemic, into 2021, Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz has announced.
coronavirus
14 Sep 2020
/ 18:31
(CGTN Europe). The UK has brought in new measures aimed at curbing a rise in cases, including restrictions of gatherings of more than six people. But there are differences between the legislation in the nations that make up the kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- France's central bank predicts the economy will contract by less than previously expected in 2020, after revising the impact of the pandemic.
- Amid a spike in infections, France's interior minister Gerald Darmanin hit out at fans of French football team Olympique Marseille for their widespread, and for a large part not socially distanced, celebrations following the club's win against Paris Saint Germain.
- New cases in France have dropped from a record 10,561 on Saturday to 7,183 one day later.
- After five consecutive days of more than 1,000 daily infections, Czechia's new cases dropped to 792 on Sunday.
- A failure by political leaders to heed warnings over the threat of the pandemic has taken "a world at risk" to a "world in disorder," according to a report on international epidemic preparedness by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.
- Sweden has taken the UK off its "red list" of countries to which it advises citizens not to travel, despite a spike in new cases in the UK over the past week.
- Thousands of health workers rallied in Brussels on Sunday, criticizing cuts to Belgium's healthcare system and demanding more spending amid the coronavirus crisis.
- The UK has secured access to up to 190 million doses of a potential vaccine from French-Austrian firm Valneva, a deal thought to be worth up to 1.37 billion euros ($1.6 billion).
- The World Health Organization expects Europe's coronavirus death toll to rise in the coming months, according to the body's Europe director Hans Klug.
- Amid a spike in infections, France's interior minister Gerald Darmanin hit out at fans of French football team Olympique Marseille for their widespread, and for a large part not socially distanced, celebrations following the club's win against Paris Saint Germain.
- New cases in France have dropped from a record 10,561 on Saturday to 7,183 one day later.
- After five consecutive days of more than 1,000 daily infections, Czechia's new cases dropped to 792 on Sunday.
- A failure by political leaders to heed warnings over the threat of the pandemic has taken "a world at risk" to a "world in disorder," according to a report on international epidemic preparedness by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board.
- Sweden has taken the UK off its "red list" of countries to which it advises citizens not to travel, despite a spike in new cases in the UK over the past week.
- Thousands of health workers rallied in Brussels on Sunday, criticizing cuts to Belgium's healthcare system and demanding more spending amid the coronavirus crisis.
- The UK has secured access to up to 190 million doses of a potential vaccine from French-Austrian firm Valneva, a deal thought to be worth up to 1.37 billion euros ($1.6 billion).
- The World Health Organization expects Europe's coronavirus death toll to rise in the coming months, according to the body's Europe director Hans Klug.
