Germany opens borders despite rising number of cases
coronavirus
02 Oct 2020
/ 09:12
(CGTN Europe). Despite rising infection rates, Germany has lifted its blanket warning against travelling to all countries outside the European Union. Although it has warned its citizens against travel to several European countries including Belgium, Wales, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar and Iceland.
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- Thousands of citizens in Czechia who are self-isolating at home were allowed to vote in the country’s regional elections at drive-in polling stations.
- The EU has called for its member nations to step up surveillance and biosecurity measures to guard against a possible new outbreak of avian flu among wild and domestic birds.
- Dutch airline KLM has said it has reached an agreement to temporarily cut the wages of its flight staff in return for a $4 billion bailout from the Netherlands government as it struggles amid the pandemic.
- Madrid’s regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso has again rejected calls from Spain’s government to put the country's capital under lockdown saying "you cannot lock down everybody."
- Black people in the UK are almost twice as likely to die from the virus than white people according to a new report conducted by researchers from the University of Manchester and commissioned by London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.
- Local lockdown measures in the UK have contained the virus and "stopped it from becoming the national outbreak that we had before," according to the country’s former health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
- Italy is considering an extension to its state of emergency until 31 January, report Italian newspapers Dailies Il Messaggero and Corriere della Sera.
- Thousands of citizens in Czechia who are self-isolating at home were allowed to vote in the country’s regional elections at drive-in polling stations.
- The EU has called for its member nations to step up surveillance and biosecurity measures to guard against a possible new outbreak of avian flu among wild and domestic birds.
- Dutch airline KLM has said it has reached an agreement to temporarily cut the wages of its flight staff in return for a $4 billion bailout from the Netherlands government as it struggles amid the pandemic.
- Madrid’s regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso has again rejected calls from Spain’s government to put the country's capital under lockdown saying "you cannot lock down everybody."
- Black people in the UK are almost twice as likely to die from the virus than white people according to a new report conducted by researchers from the University of Manchester and commissioned by London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.
- Local lockdown measures in the UK have contained the virus and "stopped it from becoming the national outbreak that we had before," according to the country’s former health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
- Italy is considering an extension to its state of emergency until 31 January, report Italian newspapers Dailies Il Messaggero and Corriere della Sera.
