{"id":104117,"date":"2020-03-22T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/germany-bans-gatherings-as-europe-intensifies-bid-to-check-virus"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:44:32","slug":"germany-bans-gatherings-as-europe-intensifies-bid-to-check-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/germany-bans-gatherings-as-europe-intensifies-bid-to-check-virus","title":{"rendered":"Germany Bans Gatherings as Europe Intensifies Bid to Check Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-bans-gatherings-as-europe-intensifies-bid-to-check-virus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>European nations tightened restrictions designed to check the spread of the coronavirus, with Germany banning gatherings of more than two people, Spain moving to extend a state of emergency and Italy ordering a halt to domestic travel.<\/p>\n<p>While Germany stopped short of confining people to their homes, it will prevent citizens meeting in groups for at least two weeks, with only families and people sharing a home exempt, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday. Restaurants will be closed except for takeout and delivery services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants to stand before the people and discuss such rules,\u201d Merkel said at a news conference in Berlin after a video conference with regional leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European nations tightened restrictions designed to check the spread of the coronavirus, with Germany banning gatherings of more than two people, Spain moving to extend a state of emergency and Italy ordering a halt to domestic travel. While Germany stopped short of confining people to their homes, it will prevent citizens meeting in groups for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}