A nurse disinfects a little girl’s hands at the entrance of the Calesas healthcare centre in the Usera neighbourhood, under partial lockdown, in Madrid, on September 21, 2020. – A million people in and around the Spanish capital today were under new “stay-at-home” orders to contain another coronavirus surge.
The restrictions in Madrid will last for two weeks starting Monday, affecting people living mainly in densely populated, low-income neighbourhoods who will be allowed only to travel for essential reasons such as work, medical care or taking children to school. “We think that they are laughing at us a little bit,” said nurse Bethania Perez, as hundreds protested against the measure.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern moved most of New Zealand to its lowest virus alert setting on Monday, saying the country was edging towards eliminating Covid-19. But with the economy reeling, the government has gradually eased what was once among the world’s strictest lockdowns — despite warnings from some experts about the virus spreading across the vast nation of 1.3 billion people.
“Iraq has been through so much misery — from war to torture to imprisonment to forced emigration and now the coronavirus pandemic,” said Sheikh Hassan Dhakeri, a cleric in the shrine city of Karbala.The United States remains the hardest-hit nation in the world, with more than 6.8 million cases and deaths approaching 200,000.
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