Emergency management

German officials agreed Wednesday to reopen schools and hairdressers in the coming weeks, while extending much of the country's coronavirus lockdown until March 7 amid concern that new virus variants could reverse the decline in confirmed cases.

Turkey was the most successful country in combatting forest fires in 2020 with an area of 6.2 hectares per fire, according to the European Forest Fire Information System data.

The area per fire in the U.S. was 68 hectares, and in Spain, it was 20.4 hectares, while this figure remained around 6.2 hectares in Turkey.

The cost of a hard lockdown is heavy. It is not just the market which - before it had time to breathe a little - is being shut down again.

It is not just the derailment of education. It is also the threat to mental health.

He is announcing strict lockdown measures

The lockdown will take effect from tomorrow at 6 am

The possibility of an even tighter lockdown this week at any given moment is not being ruled out, according to government sources, who note that existing measures to prevent the pandemic from veering out of control are being evaluated on a daily basis. 

The growing number of patients in seven days has literally exploded, currently amounting to almost 850 new infections per 100.000 inhabitants. About 43 percent of all known infections and 44 percent of all deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic were recorded only in January 2021, the health services of this country stated, as Deutsche Welle reports.

Smartphone addiction has become an issue of serious concern for all age groups, but the addiction of children towards these phones is seen as a dangerous trend by researchers. Smartphone addiction is not less harmful than alcoholism or drug abuse. During the on ongoing COVID-19 pandemic this addition has increased manifold.

The Finance Ministry has decided to allow the inclusion in the fifth phase of its cheap state loans program, known as the "Deposit To Be Returned," of 10,000 enterprises active in retail commerce, food service, tourism, culture, sport and transport that were forced to close due to the coronavirus.

China and the World Health Organization could have acted faster to avert catastrophe during the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, a panel of independent experts has concluded.