The Netherlands is locked in Covid-19 curfew effective from Saturday night, Nltimes reported. This is the first such restrictive measure in the country since World War II. The restriction is aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

Portugal is set to elect a new president and Portugese voters are asked to cast ballots in the middle of Covid-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. The process is locked in unprecedented security measures.

The Spanish capital Madrid said it would tighten its lockdown in light of spiralling numbers of new coroanvirus cases, dpa reported. A night-time curfew in the city will from Monday be brought forward an hour to 10 pm  in line with many other Spanish regions.

The Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS), that is France’s top health advisory body, recommended doubling the time between people being given the first and second Covid-19 vaccinations to six weeks from three. The aim is to increase the number getting inoculated, Reuters reported.

The video app TikTok was ordered by Italian data privacy watchdog to suspend accounts from underage users from the European country following a lethal incident with a 10-year old girl from Palermo, Sicily, Reuters reported. The fatal incident came after the girl died of asphyxiation.

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has cast a major disappointment on EU with intention to supply only 31 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021, a senior official familiar with the matter said, quoted by Reuters. The earmarked volumes are short by some 60 percent than previously projected due to production problems.

During the plenary session in Brussels, MEPs backed a resolution calling on the EU to recognise access to decent and affordable housing as an enforceable human right and to push for measures to eradicate homelessness.

The German government expects Europe’s largest economy to grow by 3% this year, a government official told Reuters, a sharp downward revision from last autumn’s estimate of 4.4% caused by November’s imposition of a second coronavirus lockdown.

A senior European Union official told Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone on Friday to release opposition politician Alexei Navalny and demanded an investigation into the Kremlin critic’s poisoning last August.

Hungary signed a deal to buy a large amount of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, the first European Union country to do so, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced after talks in Moscow on Friday.