Four million residents of Barcelona have been urged to stay at home as virus cases rise, while EU leaders wrangled for a second day in Brussels on Saturday, seeking to rescue
Spain’s COVID-19 death toll of 28,400 is one of Europe’s worst and the country has identified more than 150 new virus clusters across the country.
“It’s a disaster,” wails Maria Quintana, looking at her empty bar terrace by the Sagrada Familia in Spain’s second city. A growing number of countries and cities have been forced into reimposing restrictions, with Barcelona only the latest example.France, where masks will be compulsory in indoor public spaces from Monday, was watching coronavirus clusters in neighbouring Spain very closely, Prime Minister Jean Castex said, less than a month after the border between the two countries was reopened.
India hit the million mark on Friday, the day after virus cases in Brazil topped two million — although the World Health Organization said that Brazil’s contagion has “plateaued” with the rate of infection stabilising after 77,000 deaths.European Union leaders returned to the negotiating table on Saturday with fierce resistance from the Netherlands and its “frugal” friends dominating a second day of intense debate.
The ongoing virtual talks, hosted by Saudi Arabia, come as the surging pandemic continues to batter the global economy and campaigners warn of a looming debt crisis across poverty-wracked developing nations.
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