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Strict quarantine measures have slowed the spread of the infection, but many European countries are now facing increased disease rates, Reuters reports. This is the result of relaxing quarantine measures to limit damage to the economy and increased overcrowding during the holiday season.
“The situation is dangerous, and at any moment a scenario can begin that will be much more difficult to manage, just like in Spain,” the French scientific committee said in a statement issued by the French Ministry of Health.
“The second wave of the pandemic is very likely to start this fall or winter,” members of the French scientific committee said, adding that if people do not follow the rules of social isolation, the pandemic could return this summer.
Prior to this warning, the Doctors Union of Germany announced that a second wave had already started in Germany and that the country’s population was in danger of being impressed by progress made in the past, despite the rules of social isolation.
French authorities have already begun to tighten public hygiene standards: City leaders like Lille and Nice have ordered residents to wear protective masks on busy pedestrian streets.
In the past three days, 3,376 new cases of COVID-19 infection have been reported in France, and the number of patients treated in intensive care units has started to increase.
The country’s President Emmanuel Macron, who is currently on vacation at a Mediterranean summer residence in Fort Breganson, will go to the port city of Toulon later today to meet with social workers who care for the elderly.
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