SEOUL : As Mediterranean beaches and Las Vegas casinos lay out plans to welcome tourists again, South Korea on Wednesday announced a spike in new infections and considered reimposing social distancing restrictions, revealing the setbacks ahead for others on the road to reopening.
The European Union was unveiling a massive stimulus package for the bloc's ailing economies later Wednesday, as European nations scrambled to emulate South Korea's widely praised strategy of tracing, testing and treating that tamed its outbreak and made it a model for the world.
The EU's economics commissioner, Paulo Gentiloni, called the 750 billion-euro ($825 billion) recovery fund “a European turning point to face an unprecedented crisis." Across the Atlantic,