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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in self-isolation after having contact with a person who tested positive for Covid. His spokesman reports.
Meanwhile, if the coronavirus seems destined to remain with us for a long time – at least all winter according to the most optimistic forecasts of scientists – the restrictions imposed by the governments of the Old Continent to combat it will also remain in force: this is the message sent by the German government, and in recent days the French, to increasingly tired citizens and among whom every day new protest stripes are mounted. Meanwhile, modeled after what happened in Slovakia, Austria is planning a massive overhaul at the end of the second lockdown, which will take effect next week. The announcement came from Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who spoke of the intention to take “a similar step” to what happened in Slovakia, where two-thirds of the population were tested two weeks ago, with just over 1% positive results. . Starting Tuesday, the country will return to March with a total lockdown: a 24-hour curfew, schools and businesses closed, in an attempt to keep a contagion curve classified as exponential in several regions under control. The blockade will remain in effect until December 6. Then the carpet tests should come, “to guarantee the reopening of schools and the Christmas holidays,” Kurz explained.
And if for now Vienna is the only one that has surrendered to the most drastic option – a harsh blockade on the spring model – the other European governments do not hide that the restrictions to face the Covid-19 pandemic could last a long time . . Germans should prepare for another “four or five months of tough measures” to halt the rise in infections and should not expect current rules to be quickly relaxed, the Berlin economy minister warned from the columns of Bild am Sonntag. Peter Altmaier. Words that arrive on the eve of a government meeting to evaluate the progress of the restrictions put in place at the beginning of the month for a whole series of activities, from restaurants to leisure, sports and culture.
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