Under the new countrywide restrictions,retail businesses will be shut with the exception of supermarkets and pharmacies.
Belgium's surging second wave of COVID-19 cases on Tuesday forced it to move some severely ill patients – many on ventilators – to neighbouring Germany.
The CEO of Sweden's biggest bank has a lot of good things to say about her country's strategy for tackling the coronavirus pandemic,at least when it comes to its effect on businesses.
Sweden registered 752 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday,the highest daily rise since June,Health Agency statistics showed.
The governments of Estonia,Finland and Sweden have said they would investigate the claim,which comes after years of complaints by families of the victims and survivors over the lack of a proper inquiry.
Britain's top health advisers warn the number of new infections might hit 50,000 a day,twice the number Australia has recorded for the entire year.
"The downwards trend is broken,"the country's health chief said."We can only hope this is a blip,that the spread starts decreasing again."
Can Sweden's falling infections and lesser economic blow be taken as a victory for its light-touch approach to the pandemic? It depends who you ask.
Less than 10 per cent of what WHO needs for its coronavirus vaccines,treatments and diagnostics program has so far been donated.
Danish would-be rocketman Peter Madsen is in prison for killing the Swedish journalist onboard his vessel.
A growing number of high-profile citizens are being jailed as the relationship between Beijing and Western countries deteriorates.