Lockdown

One of the biggest challenges posed by the pandemic is that we cannot classify every section of the population that is responsible for spreading Covid-19.

Interim PM Nicolae Ciuca stated that the Government will analyse the decision draft based on which the state of alert will be extended by 30 days, underscoring that the news saying Romania is about to enter lockdown are fake.

Nearly 38,000 people have violated the weeknight curfews and lockdown on weekends between Dec. 1 and Dec. 7 in Turkey, the country's Interior Ministry has said.

Greece's committee of health experts is expected to convene on Monday to decide on whether to allow schools to reopen briefly ahead of the Christmas holidays.

Schools had been scheduled to reopen on Monday with the expiry of the second lockdown extension, though the decision was postponed over the persistence of a high number of new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations.

The lockdown will be extended until December 14th

Saturday evenings and Sundays make you painfully aware that there's a pandemic, as the center of Athens is like a desert landscape come Saturday afternoon. Thoroughfares like Solonos Street, especially, become ghosts of their former selves. Combined with the early nightfall and chilly weather, you definitely feel that something's wrong.

Sofia Roboli records sign language lessons that are broadcast on public television, at an elementary school in Athens, Friday. Most other European countries have vowed to keep schools open, but the pandemic has hit Greece hard for the first time in recent weeks following a successful lockdown in the spring, overwhelming hospitals in parts of the country.

The Hellenic Police made arrested 15 men and 11 women on Wednesday at a brothel operating in the central Athens area of ​​Omonia in violation of lockdown rules.

The brothel was located in a two-story building by police conducting a crackdown on illegal businesses in central Athens. 

The Union of Greek Prosecutors says the full operation of the courts during the three-week lockdown has magnified the risk of the coronavirus spreading to staff and the public.

The initiative, titled Corona Into Museum ASAP!, aims to provide an overview of what the pandemic meant for Ljubljana for future generations.

Citizens are thus invited to contribute depictions or objects that represent their new day-to-day life amid coronavirus concerns and restrictions, and bear witness to history.