| The Roundup
Make sure you stay up-to-date on everything to do with the coronavirus across the capitals with EURACTIV’s comprehensive overview, regularly updated with the help of our pan-European network of reporters and media partners.
The EU institutions registered its first coronavirus fatality. An external contractor at the European Parliament died on Sunday. Hungarian MEP Katalin Cseh - a trained doctor - is going to the frontlines of the pandemic and has volunteered to help fill a shortfall in medical personnel. She told Gerardo Fortuna that "it felt only natural that I offer my help to my community in the face of danger". UN Sec-Gen António Guterres called for a global truce to prevent the outbreak from wreaking havoc in conflict zones. Syria - into its tenth year of war - is particularly vulnerable. The Commission hit out at online scams related to the virus, while a German hackathon resulted in 800 viable projects that can be rolled out to help solve problems in providing childcare and monitoring symptoms. France started clinical trials of virus treatments and also wants the EU's bailout fund activated without delay or conditions. It will be on the agenda of the Eurogroup e-meeting later today. Germany's economy chief announced that the first payments from Berlin's multi-billion euro corona aid package would start to flow this week but reiterated that the Bundesrepublik is not interested in debt mutualisation - aka 'coronabonds'. Electricity consumption has plummeted across Europe, exposing the bloc's carbon market to coronavirus shock. The Commission is now being urged to revisit the idea of a carbon floor price to short up the system. Japan's prime minister agreed with the IOC to postpone the Tokyo Olympics one year, in what is now the highest-profile sporting event to get the chop. F1 engineers are turning their expert hands to building life-saving medical devices, after the sport was also put on hiatus. This week's Transport Brief features solutions to the freight traffic log-jam, ghost flights that still are not busted and the third edition of the Transport Vlog. Check it out here! Look out for... Eurogroup teleconference starts after 6pm tonight. | 
