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Italy loses points in Europe in the fight against Covid. On the day the infections hit a record 8,804 cases, Britain removed it from the list of safe countries. Anyone arriving in the UK from Italy will have to observe a two-week quarantine starting Sunday. While the Koch Institute in Berlin has included Campania and Liguria among the high-risk regions.
But in the rest of Europe it’s even worse, and in the first map published today by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Ecdc) Italy is one of five countries shown in orange, with the Calabria region even in green. . Up to 17 countries, including France, Spain and the United Kingdom, are completely fiery red. The European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, concerned about the increasingly rapid increase in infection rates, has warned of the “devastating social and economic consequences of the generalized blockades”, and also warned that the vaccine will not be the magic solution . The WHO defined the situation on the continent as “very worrying”. Covid is in fact galloping across Europe, with cities and capitals falling one after another under the shadow of measures still far removed from the total blockades of last spring but increasingly raising the bar for social distancing.
Britain has 18,980 cases and 138 deaths in a single day. And after the curfew decreed last night in Paris and in the main French cities, it is London’s turn, which, from Saturday until midnight, will go to the level of “maximum alert”, the second in the scale of restrictions imposed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In addition to the British capital, Level 2 extends to seven other areas: Essex, Elmbridge, Barrow in Furness, York, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield and Erewash. All indoor encounters between people who do not live together and therefore cannot see each other at home or in the pub or in restaurants are still possible, which, in any case, were already obliged to close at 22. It remains It is possible to meet outdoors, but in groups of maximum six people. A decision already in the air, announced by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, but accelerated by the more than 1,700 cases detected in the capital. Despite everything, the immaculate Queen Elizabeth left the solitary confinement of the different royal residences for the first time in seven months to visit the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) in Porton Down, southwest of the country, together with her nephew William. Both without a mask, even at a safe distance.
It is also a record in Germany, with 6,639 new infections surpassing the record of March 28, when 6,294 were recorded. While the Polish government announced a partial closure in the country due to the increase in infections that exceeded 8,000 cases in 24 hours. In France, however, the application of the new restrictive measures will be guaranteed with an iron fist. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that every night there will be 12,000 police and gendarmes “in charge of verifying the prohibitions” imposed by the curfew decreed for four weeks from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The penalties are very harsh: fines of up to 3,750 euros and even six months in prison for the most serious repeat offenders. Partial closures in Slovenia, where the government has divided the country into red and yellow zones and from midnight new restrictions on movement and public gatherings will take effect. Also closing for the plenary session of the European Parliament that will not take place in Strasbourg but “will be remotely”, announced “with regret” President David Sassoli, stressing that “Strasbourg continues to be the seat of the European Parliament and we will do everything possible to return” .
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