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Costa Rica

As you may have already noticed by now, China looks for ways to influence countries like Costa Rica to be more Chinese policies-friendly. Now it reached a new milestone so it seems.

With this tool file a complaint against stores that work on the fringes of the law
https://www.crhoy.com/nacionales/con-est...-de-salud/
I know the Health Ministry and the police enforcement agency got more powers due to the coronavirus crisis but this seriously look a lot like Chinese people denouncing those who seemed to have contracted the elusive virus.

Germany

No fathers allowed in delivery rooms
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-no-fat...a-52893768
Are you a German father or about to become one? Then you won't like this because you'll miss the chance to watch how your baby is born.

Merkel tests negative for Covid-19

https://www.thelocal.de/20200323/merkel-...oronavirus
After being treated by a doctor that has contracted the fearful Covid-19, she needs to stay away from parliament till she tests negative a second time.

Man arrested over German rail (Deutsche Bahn) sabotage attempt
https://www.thelocal.de/20200321/man-arr...ge-attempt
On last Saturday an idiot thought loosening the bolts on a stretch of the busy high-speed rail line between western cities Cologne and Frankfurt was a great idea.

Man licks ticket machine to spread coronavirus
https://www.dw.com/en/german-man-licks-t...a-52887069
Talking about morons, another guy in Munich wanted to find out how such a machine actually tasted.  Of course, in times of the awful virus he had to spread it as much as possible, that was his mission there.

By the way, the United Kingdom might also miss the next Olympic games if they're not postponed...

Switzerland

Elite hackers target WHO as coronavirus cyberattacks spike
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN21A3BN

Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks.
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Urbelis said he picked up on the activity around March 13, when a group of hackers he’d been following activated a malicious site mimicking the WHO’s internal email system.
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Two other sources briefed on the matter said they suspected an advanced group of hackers known as DarkHotel, which has been conducting cyber-espionage operations since at least 2007.

Let's hope hackers don't manage to grab any information nor delete it.

The WHO published an alert last month - available here - warning that hackers are posing as the agency to steal money and sensitive information from the public.

Don't let them ever fool you!

Cybersecurity firms including Romania’s Bitdefender and Moscow-based Kaspersky said they have traced many of DarkHotel’s operations to East Asia - an area that has been particularly affected by the coronavirus. Specific targets have included government employees and business executives in places such as China, North Korea, Japan, and the United States.

That sounds Chinese or North Korean to me...

The UK has gone into full coronavirus lockdown with the public banned from leaving home for nonessential reasons
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavi...-19-2020-3
Pretty much what he said is: "Stay home!"

Spain

Spanish Football League suspended indefinitely
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52004775
They first thought they could stop playing for a couple of weeks or few months but nope, the coronavirus is hitting them harder than they first thought. You don't believe me!? Well, go ask Real Madrid then!

By the way, 2 former Real Madrid presidents have contracted the coronavirus, 1 of them passed away already...