Day: April 18, 2020

The infection rates are slowing in Europe and amid confusions many countries in Europe is looking to move away from lockdown. At least half a dozen EU countries have started easing lockdowns, jumping ahead of the European Commission, which on Wednesday will formally unveil its “roadmap” toward lifting containment measures — a document intended to prevent the confusion and lack of coordination that marred the bloc’s initial responses to the pandemic. Advertisement The un-choreographed announcements came out of capitals from Copenhagen to Warsaw and preempted moves by other countries, among…

Obama says coronavirus crisis reminds US of need for leaders who ‘bring people together rather than drive them apart’. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1PlJQmrlRMzJE Former President Barack Obama stepped from the political sidelines on Tuesday and formally endorsed his former Vice President, Joe Biden, giving the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a boost from the party’s biggest fundraiser and one of its most popular figures. In a 12-minute video released by the Biden campaign, Obama said Biden has “the character and the experience to guide us through one of our darkest times and heal us…

Some Eastern European countries like Serbia, Hungary and the Czech Republic are praising China for its shipments of medical aid amid the coronavirus pandemic, while also playing down assistance they have received from the European Union BELGRADE, Serbia — When China’s first shipment of coronavirus medical aid landed in Belgrade, the president of Serbia was there to kiss the Chinese flag. In Hungary, officials have played down assistance from the European Union and praised Beijing’s help. In the Czech Republic, its president says that only China was there during the virus spread….

Spain and Austria allowed partial returns to work on Tuesday but Britain, France and India extended coronavirus lockdowns to try to rein in the most serious pandemic in a century which the World Health Organization said had “certainly” not peaked. Nearly two million people globally have been infected and more than 119,200 have died, according to a Reuters tally of official figures. The epicenter has moved from China, where the virus first emerged in December, to the United States which now has the highest death toll at 23,568. World leaders,…