European countries shut down bars, restaurants, and other nonessential businesses as part of second-wave lockdown measures

France and Germany are shutting down restaurants, bars, and other businesses and public sites again in an attempt to curb coronavirus infections, which in the past month have spiked sharply across Europe, recently topping 200,000 new cases a day. This second wave comes after a summer of loosened restrictions and a return to economic activity following the initial wave in the spring, when countries