Tough times: The headquarters of ECB in Frankfurt. The ECB has warned that the eurozone is headed for a double-dip recession while across the English Channel, Britain is bracing for a third lockdown that looks set to endure until summer. — Reuters
EUROPEAN leaders painted a bleak picture of the continent’s health emergency, warning that mutant coronavirus strains will result in longer and potentially stricter lockdowns with no clear sense of when they may end.
Governments across the European Union (EU) are grappling again with rising numbers of infections and deaths, and leaders used a video call to demand drug companies ramp up vaccine production and meet their commitments for delivering Covid-19 shots. They also renewed pleas for citizens to avoid non-essential travel both within and across the bloc’s borders.
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