RT News - March 18, 2020 (17:00 MSK)

The EU shuts its borders for a month to limit the spread of Covid-19. France takes the strictest measures in the bloc, as our correspondent reports from Paris. The World Health Organization urges countries to take a leaf out of Beijing's book and impose tougher restrictions to fight the pandemic as the situation in China itself begins to ease. And with the world distracted by Covid-19, a controversial bill that critics say would practically end online privacy makes its way through US Congress.