Tag: lockdown

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Wild animals are slipping to explore empty streets of lock-downed cities

  

  With humans retreating into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of the biggest cities. Wild boar have descended from the hills around Barcelona in Spain while sika deer are nosing their way around the deserted metro stations of Nara in Japan.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  One million Brits claimed “universal credit” welfare payments in two weeks

  

  Almost one million people have claimed “universal credit” welfare payments in the UK in the past two weeks, exposing the massive economic hit from Boris Johnson's coronavirus lockdown.

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  With lockdown, Spain's helpline for victims of gender violence shoots up

  

  Calls to Spain's governmental helpline for victims of gender violence shot up in the first two weeks of a state of emergency lockdown imposed to combat the spread of coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Spain overtakes China in Coronavirus infections; business leaders warn of impact on jobs with the lockdown

  

  Spain overtook China in the number of those infected with coronavirus on Monday as the government tightened restrictions on a population entering its third week under one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe.