South Korea and Germany grapple with fresh Covid-19 clusters as they open up their economies after lockdown restrictions
A woman with a face mask walks next to an entrance of a subway station at the 'Alexanderplatz' in Berlin, Germany on April 27, 2020.
Around the world, the US and other hard-hit countries are wrestling with how to ease curbs on business and public activity without causing the virus to come surging back. In South Korea, where a decline in new cases had prompted the government to loosen up, Seoul shut down thousands of nightclubs, hostess bars and discos after dozens of infections were linked to clubgoers who went out last weekend as the country relaxed its social-distancing guidelines.
US authorities are likewise watching for a second wave, more than two weeks after states began gradually reopening, with Georgia largely leading the way.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Europe must acknowledge that it "wasn't well-prepared" for the outbreak.
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala warned that “a handful of crazy people’’ were putting the city’s economic recovery at risk, and threatened to shut down the city’s trendy Navigli district after crowds of young Milanese were seen out at aperitivo hour ignoring social-distancing rules. In Spain, health authorities will allow regions that have demonstrated their hospitals are prepared to handle a second wave of infections to scale back their lockdowns.
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