Barcelona’s streets are left empty as 1.6m people are told to stay at home

The streets of Barcelona were empty on Sunday following the Catalan regional government’s decision to go into a ‘voluntary lockdown’ over the weekend. On Friday, over four million people in the Barcelona metropolitan area, including 1.6million in the city itself, were asked to stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary to go out. This was … Read more

Some 1.6m unsafe cars on UK roads due to coronavirus MOT extension

More than 5 million motorists skipped having their cars MOT’d in April and May by taking advantage of the government’s extension to tests during the coronavirus pandemic. From 30 March, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) waived the requirement for MOT tests for cars for six months as garages were forced to limit services … Read more

Pandemic and chill: Netflix adds a cool 16M subscribers

Netflix picked up nearly 16 million new global subscribers during the first three months of the year, helping cement its status as one of the world’s most essential services in times of isolation or crisis. The quarter spanned the beginning of stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and around the world, a response to the coronavirus … Read more