Coronavirus: How lockdown is being lifted across Europe

2020-05-11 01:27:28

After almost seven weeks of lockdown in the UK, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce the next phase of the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Across Europe, people are already seeing an easing of lockdown measures, as businesses reopen and children start going back to school. Here is how Europeans are emerging from life under lockdown. Germany has begun opening up and control of lifting the lockdown will now be in the hands of Germany's 16 federal states. But Chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed that an ''emergency brake'' will be applied anywhere that sees a surge in new infections.