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There are more and more restrictions on freedom of movement in Europe, the continent at the center of the “second wave” of the coronavirus, which is beginning to scare not only due to the increase in cases, but also due to the number of people hospitalized, hospitalizations in intensive care and (especially in France and Spain) even deaths.
Spain is still the country most in crisis: in the last two weeks here They are dead825 people, on average 60 per day, and resuscitation rooms already house 1,331 of the 10 thousand hospitalized by Covid. It is especially bad in the Madrid area: yesterday the president of the Community Isabel Díaz Ayuso announced in a dramatic press conference the entry into force of new heavy measures, “because a new total blockade and economic disaster must be avoided at all costs” . “. The regional government thus created 37 red zones where the rate of infected has exceeded one thousand per 100,000 inhabitants (in Italy, in comparison, it is 33), and that will affect 850 thousand people, many of them in the poorest areas of the capital. From there you do not enter or leave, except for work reasons or extreme necessity; group meetings are limited to 6 people, parks will be closed, and the capacity of all business activities will be limited to 50%.
It is not a real lockdown yet, but some experts fear that it will “soon be necessary,” because the country has been unable to effectively track infections and comply with some rules. And the consequences are already seen in hospitals: in Madrid there are more than 400 people in intensive care, the rooms are at 64% of capacity and a row of emergency tents returned in front of the Madrid field hospital.
Even the United Kingdom does not rule out a new total closure, where cases have shot up to almost 5,000 a day (+ 32% compared to last week), and on Thursday the mobility of 10 million people was reduced, especially in the Northeast of the country: Health Minister Matt Hancock said yesterday a Sky News that “This is the last line of defense” before closing everyone in the house, a hypothesis «that we should all avoid together, but we will be ready to implement if necessary “. As Israel already did on the eve of the Jewish holidays.
Even in France (122,000 cases in the last two weeks and 409 deaths), the situation has worsened: on Thursday the record of new positives since the start of the pandemic, more than 10,600 (with a cluster at the busy Sorbonne University) , and now “.an increase in deaths ”, double the previous week according to government reports. The most important French health institute has approved the use of salivary tests for people with symptoms, and in Nice the restrictions already applied in Marseille and Bordeaux have come into force.
They are also concerned about Czech Republic, Denmark, HollandThe latter, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said, is studying “regional measures” after nearly 2,000 cases on Thursday, many of them in the largest cities. Greece is also prepared to squeeze Athens.
September 18, 2020 (change September 19, 2020 | 08:31)
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