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Spanish football recovery: Up to 5,000 fans heading to La Liga games

Crowds are welcome to football stadiums after more than a year of games played closed behind doors due to COVID-19. Fans are back at the venues in Spain, but with restrictions on capacity and social distancing.

World News

Vaccination success sees Gibraltar enjoy life post-pandemic

The British Overseas Territory has become one of the first places in the world to ease restrictions including outdoor mask wearing

Earth News

These disposable face masks are designed to be thrown away

A Dutch designer has come up with a biodegradable mask full of flower seeds that can be planted in your garden.

Austria

Man in cow mask, fined under burqa ban law, has conviction quashed

Austria's Constitutional Court has overturned the sentence of an animal rights activist who was fined under a law banning full-face veils while wearing a cow mask.

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Germany

Third conservative MP in Germany resigns amid corruption allegations

A third conservative politician from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc has resigned over corruption allegations.

Germany

German MP resigns amid claims he used pandemic to enrich himself

It was claimed that a company run by Löbel had earned commissions of €250,000 for brokering face mask contracts between manufacturers and German authorities.

Romania

Nine Romanian police officers prosecuted over violent facemask arrest

Prosecutors in Bucharest have opened criminal proceedings against nine police officers for their treatment of two people they arrested for failing to wear facemasks in September.

Austria

Probe launched into Chinese facemasks labelled 'Made in Austria'

Austria was one of the world's first countries to make FFP2 masks compulsory in shops, schools, and on public transport in light of the COVID pandemic.

Belgium

Belgium's government warns against using its own facemasks

Belgian authorities said their freely distributed masks contain small traces of silver and a chemical compound and are undertaking further studies.

United Kingdom

PPE is the new plastic waste nightmare threatening the environment

Plastic bags have been overtaken by face masks as one of the most common pieces of plastic waste. In fact, 102 million are thrown every week in the UK alone.

World

Cloth masks factories pushed to make safer surgical masks in Portugal

Companies in Portugal were quick to start making cloth masks when the pandemic began last year. Now new regulations have come into place in some of their biggest markets, driving business towards safer surgical masks.

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Students in Bolivia's high plateaus are now wearing protective suits

They are coming to school for the start of the 2021 school year as protected as possible from COVID-19.

World

German start-up company makes 120,000 FFP2 masks a day

Most countries in Europe now require people to wear facemasks on public transport and in shops. In Germany, new rules allow only medical masks to be worn on public transport and supermarkets. Euronews has visited one small factory in the German capital that is ramping up its production.

World News

How are masks and lockdowns affecting early child development?

In a world that seems to keep going in and out of lockdown, and where faces are increasingly covered up with masks, how are babies and young children adapting? Euronews asked an expert in child development at Oxford University’s BabyLab.

Germany

Face masks: What's the difference between a cloth one and an FFP2?

As authorities in southern Germany and in Austria make FFP2 masks mandatory on public transport and in shops, we ask an expert what difference these masks make.

Germany

Bavaria makes FFP2 masks mandatory in shops and public transport

Starting next week, Austria will introduce a similar rule nationwide.

World

'Better late than sorry': Sweden introduces masks on public transport

Authorities in Sweden are recommending face masks should be worn in public transport during peak times. Up until now, the country has resisted imposing the use of face coverings in the fight against COVID-19, except in healthcare. But there are signs the government is now taking tougher action.

Sweden

Sweden switches strategy and calls for face masks on public transport

Sweden's healthcare sector is struggling with the resurgence of COVID-19, prompting the government to finally introduce measures already seen for months across Europe.

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Shoppers in Spain buy face masks as holiday gifts

The owners of UrbnMsk in Barcelona, say they are desperate to see an end to the pandemic, but believe face masks are here to stay.

Turkey

Turkey installs 'mask cams' at bus stops to promote face coverings

Commuters not wearing a mask see their face covered with an image of the coronavirus