Europe

Eliot Engel: ‘Something’s wrong with U.S. policy and we need to correct it’

Failure sets back Spain’s desperate fight against coronavirus and embarrasses China

He is in self-isolation at his Downing Street office

Number of cases marks increase of 165 since Thursday

Workers fear a situation similar to that in neighboring Spain, where soldiers sent to disinfect nursing homes found elderly people dead in their beds

Announcement follows that of Prime Minister Boris Johnson testing positive for the coronavirus

Announcement prompts concern among traders that measures by the world's largest wheat exporter could be extended

Satsuk's brother says detention may be connected with investigative reporting he's done into alleged corruption at the country's Health Ministry

Empty streets present a surreal scene for residents accustomed to unbearable traffic with honking cars and whizzing scooters

Virologists also warn that the actual number of Italy's positive cases is as much as five times as high as the official count of 80,539

Airport reopened only for the flight

In Europe, many families are finding themselves split up, with parents who send their children to study abroad finding it complicated to be reunited as flights are canceled across the continent. Our Rome correspondent Sabina Castelfranco happened to find herself in England with her two sons as Italy locked down but managed, against all odds, to get home with her boys. She tells us more about her ordeal from Rome.

More than half a million people in Britain have volunteered to help the National Health Service cope with the coronavirus epidemic. Across the world, people are stepping forward to help the most vulnerable – offering hope that societies can overcome the huge disruption caused by the virus. VOA’s Henry Ridgwell reports from London.

Streets of Barcelona and its famous tourist attractions deserted

The urgent measures are intended to help people and businesses to cope with coronavirus pandemic