German chancellor in self-isolation after her doctor tests positive for coronavirus; reports say 360 more people have died in Italy; first two cases in Gaza * UK coronavirus: Boris Johnson to give latest briefing * US coronavirus latest updates * Italy shuts all non-essential businesses after 793 die in one day * Last Spanish flu survivor offers coronavirus warning * See all our coronavirus coverage 5.51pm GMT German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after a doctor who gave her a vaccine tests positive for coronavirus 5.49pm GMT Greece’s prime minister has announced that as of 6 AM tomorrow a curfew will come into effect nationwide. In a televised address - his third in less than a week - Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the measure will prohibit “the circulation and movement of citizens” deemed to be “purposeless” - the strictest restriction, yet, in the fight to contain the novel coronavirus spreading further. “It is perhaps the last step that an organised democratic state [can take],” he said. “ A step which must be taken in time, so that it is not taken in vain, because time isn’t counted, any more, in days but in hours,” he told the nation adding that in Italy, every two minutes, a life was now being lost to Covid-19. Continue reading...
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