Dancing on the rooftops as lockdown concert lifts spirits in Albania


  • World
  • Wednesday, 08 Apr 2020

DURRES, Albania (Reuters) - As singing boomed among the apartment buildings of Albania's seaside town of Durres, families took to their wrought-iron balconies, clapped in the windows and danced on the rooftops.

The group of singers serenading the port of Durres are among the only people in Albania given special dispensation to venture outside during lockdown hours.

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