Europe enacts new curbs as COVID surges in absence of vaccine


  • World
  • Tuesday, 27 Oct 2020

FILE PHOTO: A woman rides a scooter past a closed hotel at Barrio Gotico (Gothic Quarter), after Catalonia's government imposed new restrictions in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Barcelona, Spain October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

ROME (Reuters) - European governments moved on Tuesday to impose new curbs to try to contain a rapid surge in coronavirus infections and provide economic balm to help businesses survive the pandemic.

World leaders face an increasingly difficult task as they seek to limit the spread of the disease and the damage to their economies, while they pin their hopes on as-yet unproven vaccines.

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