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The Czech Republic, which had been praised for its swift response to COVID-19 in the spring, is now topping global charts of new coronavirus infections and deaths per population. Authorities have failed to control new infections since cases started to increase in the summer. Despite almost (...)
Sweden’s longtime refusal to impose a general lockdown has seen it portrayed as an alternative “model” for coping with the pandemic. Yet death rates in its care homes have been appalling — and as a scandal that broke last month highlighted, much of the blame lies with the breakup and privatization (...)
At least 30 of 41 members of a gospel choir in northeastern Spain have contracted coronavirus following a rehearsal indoors with little air circulation, local authorities and the chorus say.
The River Troupe Gospel, a volunteer gospel group, rehearsed on Sept. 11 ahead of an open-air (...)
Around 100 domestic cases of COVID-19 that have arisen in Iceland the past few days can be traced to a pair of French tourists that came to the country in mid-August, Vísir reports. The two were put into isolation after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, but broke regulations. Three (...)
In Madrid, authorities have imposed a new lockdown on 850,000 people living in the city’s working-class neighbourhoods – the very places where key workers at the front lines of the virus are most likely to live.
“This is a form of class segregation. It is unjust and ineffective and cannot be (...)
Why have the Swedish authorities not taken more vigorous steps to slow the spread of a virus that has taken such an unequal toll?
While the British left has criticized the UK’s erratic handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Swedish left has backed a national response that has led to death, ill (...)
A group infection centred in the West Iceland town of Akranes led to extensive, random local testing on Saturday, RÚV reports. Happily, all 612 people who were tested returned negative results, indicating that the infection has not spread as extensively as was originally feared.
There are (...)
The Czech Republic (CZ) entered the pandemic in exceptionally good economic condition, with the lowest unemployment rate in all of the EU, with solid economic growth (2.6 %) and increasing real wages together with low public indebtedness at a level of about 31 % of GDP. Therefore, the Czech (...)
The Republic of Ireland has succeeded in “flattening the curve” of the coronavirus’ spread in relative terms over the last six week. The death toll is roughly on par with Denmark, far less than devastating hotspots in Western Europe. Although the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has (...)
As of April 11, the Netherlands is suffering the fifth highest per capita Covid-19 death rate in the world, reporting 24,413 confirmed coronavirus infections and 2,643 Covid-19 deaths in a county of just 17 million. Center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte was slow to respond to the crisis (...)
‘Coronabond’ proposal for debt sharing threatens to derail meeting of countries still haunted by fallout from 2008.
Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Cranes at the port of Hamburg Cranes at the port of Hamburg. Ministers from Germany and other ‘frugal’ eurozone nations (...)
No Borders New: Briefly describe the state of the pandemic in your country or city. How many people are infected? How many have died? What do experts expect in the coming weeks in terms of how fast the contagion will spread.
Agnes Lou: As of April 1, there were 4,947 confirmed coronavirus (...)
More than 60,000 Germans have tested positive for the coronavirus and 577 have died from Covid-19 as of March 31. Yet, Germany has not yet suffered the terrible casualty rates seen in France, Spain, and Italy where approximately 25,000 people have died in the last few weeks. And while workers (...)
Spain’s requisitioning of private hospitals is a fine example of government mobilization to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak. Yet the country’s overwhelmed wards also show how neoliberal policies have chipped away at public health care — starving hospitals of resources while siphoning them off to (...)
There’s a surreal calm in the last country in Europe to hold out against lockdown. But the death toll is rising and some are voicing dissent.
The Øresund Bridge – yes, that bridge – is an engineering marvel linking the Swedish city of Malmö and Copenhagen that normally transports 70,000 people (...)
With 11,888 positive cases and 193 deaths to date [27 March] for 8 million people, Switzerland is the country with the most Covid-19 cases per capita in the world. 13.74 cases per 10,000 inhabitants on average in the country as a whole, 39.65 in Ticino, 35.19 in Geneva and 29.49 in the canton (...)
Roberto Luzzi, leader of the Italian labor union, SI Cobas , Sindicati Interaziendali Comitati di Base (Cross-industry Base Committees), explains how the compulsion for profit has transformed Italy into the most intense Covid-19 killing zone in the world.
By mid March Italy has become the (...)
793 people died in Italy on Saturday from Covid-19, the highest number of deaths anywhere in the world on a single day. Antonello Zecca is an organizer with the Sinistra Anticapitalista(Anticapitalist Left) in Italy. He has written extensively on Italian politics, social and labor movements, (...)
As of March 20, more than 1,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the Spanish State, placing it fourth behind only China, Italy, and Iran in both casualties and infections globally. Nearly one-third of the infections are located in Madrid and there is no end in sight, despite Prime Minister (...)
I am locked down in Barcelona, but at least there is universal health care and a tradition of mutual support.
On the first Friday in March, I flew to the United States for an overdue family visit. I’ve lived in Spain for more than a year now and hadn’t been able to travel since the fall, when my (...)
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