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Germany extends the semi-lockdown until December 20. For him Christmas holidays, The contact ban will be relaxed and gatherings of up to 10 people will be allowed. “No one will have to live the Christmas holidays alone,” he said. Angela Merkel, presenting the new measures after meeting with Laender’s presidential ministers. The contact ban will tighten over the next few weeks: it will not be possible to meet more than five people from two residential areas, excluding children under 14 years of age. Restaurants, entertainment and cultural venues are expected to remain closed, but an early local reopening can be envisaged. Berlin pushes because the EU ban ski holidays until January 10. The Chancellery, in Berlin at a press conference, made it clear that it wanted to try to reach an agreement with its European neighbors on the matter, adding that it will not be easy.
Spain also set strict limits yesterday, while France decided to loosen control. In short, Europe looks to Christmas, hoping to control the spread of the coronavirus enough to allow it to take place, although in a regulated, limited and atypical way. Meanwhile, the global number of registered cases in the world is approaching 60 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, with 1.4 million deaths. Also there Spain has limited the celebrations: a maximum of six participants at Christmas, with a curfew at 1 in the morning on December 24 and 31. The executive proposal of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recommends “limiting participation to members of the same coexistence group. In the case of outsiders, the limit is six people ”. Naturally, anti-contagion measures are maintained, such as masks, hand washing, physical distance, room ventilation. Madrid also plans to limitate movements as much as possible, both within the national territory and abroad, but not to impose prohibitions. The measures will be discussed with the regional and health authorities. THE
In France, the president Emmanuel macron Announced an initial relaxation of constraints. As of Saturday, November 28, you can take walks or exercise within a radius of 20 kilometers from your home and all commercial activities may reopen until 9 p.m. new phase with the end of the closure and the introduction of a curfew from 21 to 7. The tightening of winter sports continues at least until January. “On December 24 and 31 you can move freelyMacron specified.
Meanwhile, the British government has relaxed restrictions on those arriving in England before the Christmas season. From December 15 you will arrive by plane, ferry or train, You will be able to end the quarantine after just five days., if it shows to have tested negative for Covid-19. For those who choose not to undergo the test, the 14 days will remain. The government thus hopes to reactivate the travel sector, which is in great difficulties.
In view of the Christmas holidays, in Europe “we have to learn from last summer and not repeat the same mistakesBecause “loosening” the measures taken to curb the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus “too early” or to an excessive extent “may pave the way for the third wave,” says the president of the European Commission. Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at the plenary session of the European Parliament, in Brussels. “I said a while ago that it would be a different Christmas. And yes, it will be a quieter Christmas, “adds von der Leyen, also underlining that”solidarity is needed between Member StatesFrom the EU, probably alluding to the controversy over the ski resorts, which Austria and Slovenia would like to open at Christmas. It is a delicate subject, because the EU is not a federal state and the competences in health matters are national, so the Commission can invite and recommend, even with some insistence, but it certainly does not have it available. The Health Commissioner Stella kyriakides, who presented the new European strategy on drugs at a press conference, stressed that the elimination of the measures runs the risk of causing an “increase” in coronavirus infections and that States must base their decisions in this regard on “bases scientific “. But it is clear, he added, that each country has a different situation and therefore its own specific characteristics. Finally, however, “we see the light at the end of the tunnel,” emphasized von der Leyen, since “the first EU citizens could be vaccinated” against Covid-19 “already before the end of December”. Precisely today the Commission authorized a sixth framework contract for the pre-purchase of potential vaccines, with the American company Moderna.
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