From our correspondents
While shops and restaurants in Melbourne, Australia reopened after three months of closure, Europe was preparing for the worst on Wednesday.
Across the continent, the epidemic situation is slowly deteriorating.
The map of the European Union drawn up by the ECDC, the European agency for disease prevention and control, has gone on red alert, that is to say with an incidence rate over 14 days of more than 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Only Norway, Finland, Estonia or Greece are doing a little better.
According to an AFP count, the virus that appeared less than a year ago in China has already killed 268,359 people in Europe for 9,423,884 cases detected.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced
"strict and painful"
measures on Wednesday
to stem the epidemic.
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The first turns of the screw were given last week in Europe.
Ireland announced a partial re-containment for six weeks, leaving schools open.
In the Republic
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