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“It is devastating to have to undergo another reconfinement (…) during this period, the most hectic before Christmas,” lamented John Farrington, who runs an antique jewelry store.
From Thursday, the 5 million Irish people will have to stay at home and will only be able to travel within a 5 km radius of their homes to work or exercise.
Non-essential stores – like the one in Farrington – will have to close for six weeks and bars and restaurants will only be able to serve takeout.
The schools and nurseries will remain open, however, the main difference with the long confinement of last spring (boreal).
“If we fight together in the next six weeks, we will have a chance to celebrate Christmas properly,” said Prime Minister Michael Martin.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused at least 1,865 deaths in Ireland, according to official figures.
Ireland had presented a strategy to deal with the coronavirus, which is hitting it again, as seen in this video from the Euronews YouTube account:
In the United Kingdom, Wales, where three million people live, will enter a two-week lockdown on Friday, the toughest measure in the country to fight the pandemic.
Coronavirus punishes Italy again
For its part, Italy registered 15,199 positive cases for coronavirus on Tuesday, a number never before recorded; In addition, 127 people died, a figure that has not been seen since May, according to this Wednesday’s report from the Ministry of Health.
Restrictions are increasing in practically all countries in Europe. On Wednesday, The Czech Republic also announced a partial confinement of the population and in France, where a curfew is already in force in Paris and other regions especially affected by a high number of infections, Prime Minister Jean Castex will announce additional measures on Thursday.
According to a bill presented in the Council of Ministers, the French government wants to apply restrictions on the movements, meetings and operation of establishments until April 2021.
In Italy, one of the countries hardest hit at the start of the pandemic, the prosperous Lombardy, in the north, will apply a curfew from Thursday and for three weeks.
Coronavirus does not give truce in Latin America either
Worldwide, the pandemic has already left 1.12 million deaths and almost 41 million infections, according to official figures.
In Latin America, the most mourning region with more than 383,000 deaths and 10.6 million infections, Argentina exceeded one million cases despite the restrictions imposed by the government seven months ago. The deceased already exceed 26,000.
In Brazil, particularly hit by the pandemic with almost 155,000 deaths and 5.2 million cases, the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, said that the country will add the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine to its national immunization program, despite the political dispute and economical on its use.
This vaccine will be added to the one developed by the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, had referred to CoronaVac as the vaccine “from that other country” and resisted using it.
In the United States, which accumulates more than 220,000 deaths and 8.2 million cases, covid-19 permeates the final stretch of the November 3 election campaign.
On Tuesday the Donald Trump administration and the Democratic opposition advanced in their negotiations on a new economic stimulus plan, although it is not clear that it can be approved before citizens go to vote.
Tuesday, the first lady, Melania Trump, who suffered the coronavirus at the beginning of the month, like her husband, canceled a rare appearance at a rally in Pennsylvania due to a “persistent cough,” a spokeswoman said.
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