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According to Bild, Merkel’s proposal will be to activate a “the ckdown light“It lasted a month, with the closure of restaurants and bars, reducing social contacts” to a minimum “, but with schools and kindergartens remaining open. Data from the Robert Koch Institut, the German epidemiological center, shows that there have been 14,964 new infections and 27 deaths in Germany in the last 24 hours, a historical record since the start of the pandemic.
Macron ready to announce a new grip
Also for Emmanuel Macron it is time to decide. Faced with the “exponential” worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French president is preparing to launch a new tightening against coronavirus. Even in the event of a national closure, schools should remain open. The same goes for public services. Macron will chair a new defense council this morning, the second in two days, before the council of ministers.
GB, Government Sources: “Second Wave More Deadly Than First”
The second wave of Covid-19 infections will be more lethal than the first and the British government “is working confidentially” on the assumption that “the death toll will remain high during the winter.” This was revealed by the Daily Telegraph, reported by government sources, according to which estimates of a worse scenario in terms of deaths “were presented to the prime minister who is now under considerable pressure to arrive at” more drastic action “and essentially a new lockProjections provided by the Scientific Emergencies Advisory Group (Sage) point to a likely peak with fewer fatalities, but a longer drop from the peak, with a harder overall toll.
Regional closures in Spain
Closures are also planned in Spain, but for the moment only at the regional level. The state of emergency launched by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez a few days ago gave the regions the freedom to close their borders if necessary. It seems that this is what Andalusia, Madrid and Castilla y León are thinking about, having already asked their technical-scientific commissions for an opinion with a view to the Puente de Todos los Santos. The president of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, admitted in an interview with Cadena Cope that he was “very pessimistic about the possibility of keeping the region open this weekend.”
“The number of hospitalized and intensive care units makes us think that it is not the right time to authorize the flows of people entering and leaving the region,” he said. In Spain, doctors crossed their arms to protest the lack of strengthening of the health system on the day that the Sánchez government presented the budget law for 2021 that establishes a 151% increase in spending in the sector. Many of them went on strike in a symbolic way, without ceasing to guarantee basic services but, according to the main union (Cesm), 85% of the 267,000 Spanish doctors joined the unrest. The intention is to go on strike on the last Tuesday of the month indefinitely.
