These countries are reopening -- here's how they're doing it
Updated 0453 GMT (1253 HKT) April 11, 2020
People in the Czech Republic can now shop at hardware and bicycle stores, play tennis and go swimming. Austria plans to reopen smaller shops after Easter. Denmark will reopen kindergartens and schools from next week if coronavirus cases remain stable, and children in Norway will return to kindergarten a week later.
These nations are the first in the West to start feeling their way gradually out of the limits on daily life imposed by governments to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Others will want to see what lessons can be learned as they too eye an exit route from lockdown amid growing social and economic pressures at home.
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Yet world leaders, diplomats and geopolitical analysts know they are living through epoch-making times and have one eye on the daily combat, the other on what this crisis will bequeath the world. Competing ideologies, power blocs, leaders and systems of social cohesion are being stress-tested in the court of world opinion.
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Along with 20,000 others – cramped together in tents made out of wood and tarpaulin, deprived of basic sanitation in a holding centre that was originally designed for 3,000 – Hasan has been watching with mounting fear as Covid-19 has silently swept across borders, cities and countries.
“They cannot stop coronavirus coming, it’s got everywhere,” he tells the Independent, from inside the camp.
Far-right terrorist ringleader found to be teenager in Estonia
A group known as Feuerkrieg Division (fire war division) was led by a 13-year-old from Estonia. The teenager shared bomb-making instructions and wanted to set up a terrorist training camp.
Authorities in Estonia captured the leader of a far-right terrorist group called the "Feuerkrieg Division" (FDK), or ''fire war division,'' an online group with members that spread across several countries, Der Spiegel reported on Thursday.
Investigators found the group was headed by a 13-year-old, the German magazine said, citing Estonian newspaper Eesti Ekspress. The young man operated online under the name "Commander" and was responsible for the recruitment and admission of new members.
Flying priests and empty churches: Easter in the time of coronavirus
From services in empty churches and “drive-through” confessions, to priests blessing entire cities from the skies, with dozens of countries in lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic, worshippers all over the world have had to find innovative ways to mark the Easter holidays.
In Ecuador’s Guayaquil, the city hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Bishop Giovanni Battista boarded a helicopter this Thursday to offer traditional Easter blessings to the residents below.
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The state has now had more diagnosed cases of the virus than any single country. It has the grim distinction of being at the forefront of a global health crisis.
Anthony is now working 16-hour days to try to save people across the city, while supporting colleagues who fear for their lives and their families.
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