With virus ‘under control’, Germany begins opening up – Arab News

With virus ‘under control’, Germany begins opening up – Arab News

With virus 'under control', Germany begins opening up /node/1661871/world. BERLIN: Germany takes its first steps back toward normality on Monday, with smaller shops in some regions opening up for the first time in a month after politicians declared the coronavirus "under control.". Has been one of the countries worst hit by COVID-19, but also one of the quickest to react.. "We will not be able to go back to our normal lives for a long time," said her conservative party colleague Armin Laschet, the state premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, the country's most populous region.. According to German media, the city has had no new cases in a week.. 16 killed in shooting rampage, deadliest in Canadian history /node/1661766/world. Police began advising residents of the town - already on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic - to lock their doors and stay in their basements.. Police identified the man believed to be the shooter as Gabriel Wortman, 51, who was thought to live part-time in Portapique.. The country overhauled its gun-control laws after gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique college in 1989.. Late Sunday morning, there were half a dozen police vehicles at