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The “moment is critical” and we are still in October. “Too many” countries in which there is an exponential increase in infections, especially in Europe and the United States. The northern hemisphere is “at a critical moment, the next few months will be very tough and many countries are on a dangerous path.” The warning is from the World Health Organization, while the figures coming from the capitals again mark the irrefutable trend of a terrifying curve rising across the continent.
Thus in France, where contagions have passed 42 thousand, it is the general director of the Paris Hospitals, Martin Hirsch, who raised the alarm, stating that he believed “possible” that the “second wave” of Covid-19 “is worse than before”.
“It is too early to say whether we will resort to local closures,” said President Macron, answering questions from journalists at the end of a visit to a hospital in Pontoise, north of Paris. “We will evaluate every week the effectiveness of the measures taken. At least until the beginning of December, we will have everything that the government has announced. These measures, of course, I can tell you today, will not be reduced. Perhaps they will be strengthened if they are not sufficiently effective “. “.” We will get rid of the virus only with a stroke of luck, but we have seen that so far we have not had luck, neither for herd immunity nor for a combination vaccine-treatment “- he added -. But in any case” we will have this virus at least until summer. “
Between the real and official figures there is a discrepancy in Spain, according to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who spoke of the possibility of more than three million infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic compared to the one million mark officially surpassed some days ago. Meanwhile, in Madrid, the new restrictive measures linked to the regional alarm in the area of the most affected in Spain will come into force in the next few hours: officially it is not called a ‘curfew’ but the restrictions are mainly in the time slot between midnight and six in the morning. The bars and restaurants will be closed during the same time slot and some clubs will not be able to admit customers after 11 pm
And Luxembourg has also decided to establish a nightly curfew between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. and limit meetings to a maximum of four people following the rise in infections. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced it on Twitter.
The virus does not give respite even to the United Kingdom where there is a new peak of 20,530 daily cases and 224 deaths. The last index Rt is estimated between 1.2 and 1.4. While the total lockdown has been activated in Wales.
It’s no better on the other side of the ocean, where the United States has recorded more than 75,000 cases, the second daily record since the start of the pandemic. Eight states hit their daily high, while 13 reported more cases in the past seven days than in any previous week.
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