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Unprecedented were the scenes of desolation in Paris and eight other French cities on Saturday night after the closure was imposed to deal with the pandemic.
The French Ministry of Health yesterday announced 32,427 new cases in a 24-hour period, a record number, after 25,086 on Friday.
The total number of cases since the beginning of the year amounted to 867,197.
The main protests came from restaurant owners, whose businesses are already under pressure after the two-month lockout last spring.
Today new measures are expected to be announced in Italy.
The Italian media spread information about measures aimed at unnecessary activities, such as gyms, swimming pools and amateur sports activities.
The measurements in France have a population of around 20 million and are valid every day from 9 pm to 6 am.
The fight against the coronavirus continues in other European countries
In Slovakia, Prime Minister Igor Matovic announced that the country’s authorities would test all people over the age of 10, while earlier this month a ban on religious services and other mass events was imposed, and e-learning became required.
On the occasion of the new measures, a group of protesters – including 500 neo-Nazis and hardliners – besieged the Prime Minister’s building on Saturday night, causing incidents to which the police responded with the use of tear gas.
Yesterday, Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans to reduce their social interactions and continue to travel as little as possible by making a personal appeal after the federal government found it difficult to agree with local governments on ways to curb the second wave of the pandemic.
“We have to do everything possible to prevent the virus from spreading uncontrollably.” Every day counts, “Merkel said in her weekly videotaped sermon.
Although the number of coronavirus cases in Germany is lower than in much of Europe, it has started to rise and today stands at a daily record 7,830 infections, according to the Robert Koch Institute.
At the same time, the total death toll since the beginning of the pandemic increased by 33 to 9,767.
Source: BBC
