“We’re definitely not in the March-April situation yet, but there are reasons to fear we might get there again,” said Manuel Franco, a researcher and epidemiology professor at Alcala de Henres University.
On Monday, Madrid officials locked parts of the capital that affected about 850,000 residents. Thus, due to the resurgence of the virus, a drastic resurgence has arisen, critics said, adding that the government has achieved a resounding victory in its first lockdown by opening the country’s borders to revive its crippled tourism industry.
“We didn’t do our homework,” he told the Spanish newspaper Al Paes. Dr. Said Alberto Garcia-Bastero, leading epidemic. He and other doctors have called for an independent inquiry into the country’s response to the epidemic.
In Germany, which has managed the virus better than many of its neighbors, there are concerns about the spike of infection but less about hospitalization. Of the 9,396 people infected with the virus in recent weeks, only 267 need intensive care treatment, with less than half of them on respiratory tract.
“We know more than we did six months ago,” German Health Minister Jens Spaan told ARD’s public television, pointing to Germany’s increased testing capacity, protective gear and intensive care beds.
Like Germany, Britain has made progress in strengthening its national health service to fight another nation, but it lags far behind Germany in building a nationwide testing and trace system. On Thursday, it finally launched its troubled smartphone app in England and Wales, which it hopes will allow it to better track the virus.
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said the number of people hospitalized by the virus in Britain was doubling every seven to eight days, and deaths would multiply, “at a potentially fatal turn.” According to Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Valens, if the virus is not controlled, it could cause 1,000,000 cases a day by October and 500,000 a day by November.
