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NEW YORK. Faced with an increase in coronavirus infections in New York, Mayor Bill De Blasio announced the closure of nine neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, considered a focus of infection. Schools and non-essential businesses will be closed and the quarantine will also affect restaurants that serve outdoors. “It’s a difficult day,” De Blasio said. The lockdown will begin on Wednesday.
In France it is “high alert”
In Paris, the maximum alert could be declared, a measure that will lead to the closure of bars in the region. The decision is taken for granted by many French media, waiting for the Ministry of Health to pronounce, while the place already closes at 10 p.m. At the origin is the dramatic increase in cases of infection by Covid-19, which has already led the government to declare the alert in Aix-Marseille, with the premises completely closed and the consequent protests of the owners. In Paris, where there is an obligation to wear masks even outdoors and in the workplace, the rate of infections has increased dramatically, as has that of occupied beds in intensive care. And in public hospitals, all staff licenses have already been canceled. “If the deterioration continues,” the Health Ministry previously declared, “we will have no choice but to declare Paris and the region on high alert from Monday.” The restaurateurs still hope that their premises will be saved, avoiding further economic damage, thanks to a proposal for a sanitary protocol reinforced with measures such as verification of temperature and limits to groups of eight people. France has a total of 630,000 infections and 32,000 deaths.
Israel is evaluating closure amid tensions
In Israel, 2,576 new cases of coronavirus have been registered in the last 24 hours, a relatively low figure but partly explained by the decrease in the number of swabs carried out, a third compared to those of the previous days. The positivity rate, 11%, continues its slight downward trend, generating cautious optimism among Health Ministry officials who seek to advise the government not to further aggravate the national blockade imposed on September 24.
According to the press, Finance Minister Israel Katz would like to reopen small businesses immediately, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not agree. The head of the Executive, in a video broadcast on social networks, stressed that next Thursday a decision will be made regarding the extension of the closure of the country, while tomorrow the government will authorize a tightening of the fines for those who transgress the anti-Covid regulations . This is the case of the hundreds of faithful who gathered tonight in Bnei Brak to pray, during the Sukkot festival, without masks and without respecting the distancing measures. The police intervened with force to disperse the gatherings but they flew insults against the agents, called “Nazis”, and despite the fines, many refused to leave; 13 were arrested.
