Europe

Britain's Prince Charles Tests Positive For The Coronavirus

8:40am March 25, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

The future King of England tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement from the prince's royal office in London. His wife tested negative. Both are in isolation in Scotland.

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The Show Must Go On — Even If There Is Only 1 Audience Member

6:58am March 25, 2020

The Perm Opera and Ballet Theater in Russia will allow a single audience member at a time. The theater is accepting applications and says it will select each evening's lucky spectator by drawing.

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A worker with Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population checks the temperature of a Haitian man coming from the Dominican Republic on March 5.

'The Dread Of Responsibility' — Paul Farmer On The Pandemic And Poor Countries

5:04pm March 24, 2020

by Marc Silver

The co-founder of Partners in Health talks about the challenges facing already challenged health-care systems as coronavirus spreads.

Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes in Madrid found some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people who authorities suspect died from the coronavirus.

Spanish Military Finds Dead Bodies And Seniors 'Completely Abandoned' In Care Homes

2:02pm March 24, 2020

by Lucía Benavides

The Spanish military found residents of some care homes "completely abandoned" and "dead in their beds," Spain's defense minister announced Monday. Spain has more than 39,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

Jacques Enoch with his bike in the Alps in 1941. Danièle Enoch-Maillard's father, who was Jewish, survived World War II in an Alpine village with the help of a deputy mayor and a postal worker who sent smoke signals every time the Nazis headed up the mou

Waiting Out Coronavirus In The French Alps, 'Cooped Up In The Great Outdoors'

12:01pm March 24, 2020

by Eleanor Beardsley

A 73-year-old French woman in confinement in Chamonix recalls her Jewish father, who survived World War II hiding out in a nearby village. Others sent him smoke signals to warn when Nazis were near.

U.K. Changes Direction, Orders Lockdown To Fight Coronavirus

6:50am March 24, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced strict lockdown measures on the entire country, ordering Britons to stay home unless going out for essential work and purchases.

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"To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics," World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says of the COVID-19 respiratory disease, which is now in nearly every country in the world.

Coronavirus: WHO Head Says Nations Must Attack As 'Pandemic Is Accelerating'

7:53pm March 23, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Despite an alarming rush past 300,000 cases worldwide, the WHO's leader says, "We're not helpless bystanders. We can change the trajectory of this pandemic."

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Stay-At-Home Order Now In Place After Spring Weather Brought Britons Out In Public

5:04pm March 23, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has now enacted a stay-at-home order to stall the coronavirus, after a glorious spring weekend in much of Great Britain brought many thousands of people outdoors.

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Italy Witnesses Relentless Rise In COVID-19 Deaths

9:51am March 23, 2020

by Sylvia Poggioli

Italian army trucks are taking coffins of Coronavirus victims from overwhelmed funeral homes — as doctors treating COVID-19 patients issue urgent pleas for help.

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An empty pub in London. On Friday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the country's bars, pubs, restaurants and cafes must close to curb the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 100 people in the U.K.

U.K. Shuts Pubs, Restaurants And Other Locales To Curb Coronavirus Spread

6:40pm March 20, 2020

by Sophie Eastaugh

The government ordered establishments to close Friday night and announced wage relief for furloughed workers.