The threshold of 7 thousand infections: what did France, the United Kingdom and Spain do when they reached it (and with what effects)

Local closings, no private parties, limited number of ceremonies, stop for amateur sports. These are just some of the measures adopted after the entry into force of new dpcm Signed by Giuseppe Conte, while in Italy the 7 thousand daily infections. Figures that make the country go back months, to weeks of emergency shutdown. But in Europe there are other states that before Italy had to face the new wave of coronavirus in the Old Continent. Between limitations to nightlife me closures irregular, this is how they behaved France, United Kingdom me Spain before the new peak of national contagion. This is what these countries did when they reached the threshold of 7,000 daily infections. And what happened next.

France, 7 thousand cases on August 28: but the first restrictions almost a month later
In the height of summer, the Paris government had to deal with a new surge in infections. Already on August 28, the country was in the situation in which Italy is today. But while we are in Rome we run to hide prolonging it state of emergency in the country and by imposing new restrictions, in those late summer days, in Paris, the confrontation between the experts who demanded new measures to counteract the advance of the COVID-19 and the will of the president Emmanuel macron, focused on the need to prevent a new lock that could have brought the national economy to its knees.

The confrontation took place on September 9, just twenty days after the intervention with which the French president rejected the hypothesis of a new confinement. With the country counting 2,000 cases a day, Macron moved on schools reopening. Then the infections grew, but not quarantine cut in half, some institutes were closed and that day in November the president of the Scientific Council that supports the government in decisions about the pandemic, Jean-Francois Delfraissy, he defined “worrying” the French situation regarding Covid, convinced that the executive “will be forced to take difficult decisions within a maximum period of 8 or 10 days. “Prophetic words, since only 48 hours later special measures were taken to Marseilles me Bordeaux, the most affected areas, and on September 24 the executive launched new restrictive measures: in Marseille, restaurants and bars are closed, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux me niceinstead, the locals had to lower the blinds at 10pm. Other restrictions too northern france, with ban on parties and family gatherings.

Now, with the general blockade that is no longer a remote hypothesis and the country is ready for a new one. state of emergency, with the number of infections that for days has been sustained above 20 thousand a day, the president had to surrender to the idea of ​​imposing curfew in Paris and in the areas of France most affected by the virus.

United Kingdom, 7 thousand infections as of September 29. But the summer restrictions were always on (including the rule of six)
The situation in Britain is quite different, at least in terms of the measures taken. The government of Boris johnson it was the last in Europe to give in to harsh restrictions during the first wave. Thus, with the infections that soon began to rise again, the executive of London he immediately ran for cover to avoid a new general blockade. Already on September 14, when in the country there were an average of 3,000 infections a day, the premier introduced what was later renamed “The rule of six”: maximum six people for any type of meeting, at home or in public places. A close to social life included in part also in the last provision of the president of the Council of Conte.

With infections on the rise, on September 29 the threshold of 7 thousand was exceeded, Downing street therefore it has decided to implement new restrictions in the north of England, where the number of cases is higher than the average: prohibited legally whatever private and non-work meeting between people who do not live in the same house, with Many strengthened in case of violations. Finally, on October 12, with infections now at 14,000, Johnson announced “Three levels” of severity restrictions depending on the areas of the Kingdom and the incidence of the virus.

Spain, the first to enter the second wave. 7 thousand cases on August 13, but mainly local restrictions
Who, in the height of summer, has entered the nightmare of the second wave first is Spain. Already on August 13, the Iberian institutions registered infections above the 7,000 threshold. Thus, at a time of year when people tend to gather on vacation, even outdoors, the government of Pedro Sanchez tried to run for cover: on August 14, the closing nightclubs and new restrictions on bar hours, as well as visits limited to nursing homes and the no smoking outdoors If the distance of two meters cannot be guaranteed. One way, above all, to avoid gatherings linked to nightlife.

From that point on, however, they mostly recorded local restrictions, ordered by individual communities. On August 24, with almost 20 thousand infections, the director of the Coordinating Center for Health of Spain, Fernando Simonhe asked the government of Madrid “drastic measures to contain the pandemic. In September, they are Madrid, Andalusia me Castile and Leon to close parks and gardens, limit the number of people in the facilities and the maximum number of wedding guests. It is September 21 when a almost total block: limits to movements both within and outside the region of interest 850 thousand people. From then on, still other local, irregular measures, including the state of emergency in the Community of Madrid, until October 14, with the Catalonia that ordered the closure of the premises.

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