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“I have seen shameful images from Brazil. The average of the past week: 36,000 cases and 700 victims per day of the pandemic,” Gentiloni wrote.
Paolo Gentiloni, former Prime Minister of Italy and current Commissioner for the Economy of the European Union – Photo: Playback / Twitter
The images of agglomerations in different parts of Brazil during the New Year’s celebrations and the first days of summer, even with restrictive measures, worry epidemiologists because the number of cases and deaths per day has returned to high levels.
Paolo Gentiloni, today EU Commissioner for the Economy, held the position of Prime Minister of Italy between December 2016 and June 2018. He belongs to the Democratic Party, a legend of the Italian center-left.
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In Paris, there was no party: the photo shows a police patrol in front of the Eiffel Tower, in France – Photo: Thibault Camus / AP Photo
Photos of crowded beaches and crowded parties in Brazil contrast with New Year’s Eve images of empty streets in most of Europe, including Italy. Part of the continent is under a strict restriction and confinement scheme as cases continue to rise, including concerns about the new variant of the coronary virus Sars-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19.
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Hope is in vaccination, which has already started in the European Union. Despite this, authorities are concerned about the slower than expected application rate and dose distribution of immunizers.
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