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The coronavirus pandemic is gathering momentum across most of Europe. The authorities are preparing for the second wave.
Ukraine is breaking record after record incidence of coronavirus infection. Last week, authorities extended and tightened the quarantine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is promised that a strict quarantine will not be introduced under the March scenario, even with a more significant increase in cases for the good of the economy.
In Europe, the coronavirus is also starting to gain ground again. The number of cases this week has increased in France, Italy and Spain. Authorities in many countries are beginning to prepare for the second wave and are reverting to mask mode. The EU also fears a hit to the economy in the event of a massive quarantine. Correspondent.net says the details.
Quarantine prospects in Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers decided to extend the adaptive quarantine in Ukraine until October 31, 2020. At the same time, depending on the epidemiological situation, the regions will continue to be divided into four categories, but the restrictions will be strengthened in green areas.
There, as of September 1, in the green zone, the work of discos, nightclubs, catering establishments with leisure organization, as well as concerts is prohibited (except for those cultural institutions for which concerts are the main activity) .
In addition, local governments gain access to the Diy vdom app, which monitors citizens who are in self-isolation for 14 days.
In addition, the government decided to restrict the entry of foreigners to Ukraine. An exception was made for citizens of Belarus. Several Cabinet media sources claim the restriction is due to the Hasidic pilgrimage on the occasion of the Jewish New Year.
On Saturday, the Health Ministry announced a new daily record for the increase in the incidence of the coronavirus: in one day, the disease was immediately detected in 2,481 people. In this sense, the ministry calls for wearing masks, washing hands regularly and maintaining social distance.
“We have a growing number of people who are hospitalized every day. If we do not want to see apocalyptic images, when there is nowhere to hospitalize, simply follow the rules of the new reality that we have,” stressed the head of the Ministry of Health, Maxim Stepanov.
However, the authorities do not plan to introduce a strict quarantine, as happened at the beginning of the pandemic. As the head of the Servants of the People faction David Arakhamia said, a second stop of the economy in Ukraine is impossible.
“People will definitely not be able to withstand the second wave of such a shutdown, and the state does not have the resources to just make everyone feel at home and pay benefits,” the politician said.
Earlier, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal, during a meeting with representatives of the European Business Association, assured that he would not return to strict quarantine in Ukraine. Rather than harsh isolation, health officials will seek to contain the outbreaks and contain them with local quarantines, he said.
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Remember that children will stay at home in the red zone regions. There, training will be carried out remotely until the epidemiological situation improves. In Ivano-Frankivs, which was included in the red list, they decided to extend the school holidays with the subsequent tightening of the program instead of remote control.
As for the question of the complete abolition of quarantine restrictions in Ukraine, then, as Stepanov says, in this case, hospitals will be overcrowded.
“Cancellation of the quarantine will lead to disaster. If the quarantine is completely canceled, we will simply have nowhere to provide assistance, all hospitals will be full,” he said.
Europe prepares for the second wave
The German government is extending the ban on public events until at least the New Year. For the absence of a mask that covers the mouth and nose, the fine in Germany will be 50 euros.
French Prime Minister Jean Casteks says that “the epidemic will spread exponentially if we don’t respond quickly.”
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warns of a “difficult phase in autumn and winter” but believes in a “return to normalcy” in the summer of 2021.
The Hungarian authorities are the first in the EU to close the country’s borders to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
In recent days, signs have multiplied that politicians and other responsible leaders, in Europe at least, are tuned in to a long and serious second wave of COVID-19.
In almost all European countries, the number of cases is growing, although with different rates and number of cases. The Spanish media write that this process is happening faster in their country than in the rest of Europe.
The postponement of the World Economic Forum in Davos, which was supposed to take place in January, became highly symbolic. Organizers have already decided that even after five months meeting in a Swiss mountain resort will still be too dangerous for the health of the world’s business and political elite.
However, not everyone is tuned in to strict limits. In the spring, Italy was one of the victims. And now the number of cases is growing again, more than a thousand a day. However, the authorities do not intend to return the total blockade.
As Italian officials explain, now most young people are sick with coronavirus and, in most cases, they carry COVID-19 mildly or asymptomatically, so there are enough free beds in hospitals.
In Germany, they decided to close more than 40 schools for quarantine; training started there in mid-August. The authorities decided to respond radically to a new outbreak of infection.
The total number of newly sick Germans is several times lower than the April figures, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel refused to hesitate and introduced new bans.
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Several tens of thousands of people came out to protest against them in Berlin. Opponents of the coronavirus restrictions took part in a march called the Freedom Assembly, with participants gathered from different regions of Germany.
They carried banners that read “We are the people”, “All lies” and called for the resignation of the federal government. Most of the protesters were not wearing masks.
SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread across the planet at different speeds. From June 30 to August 21, according to Johns Hopkins University, the number of cases increased by 85.5 percent in Europe, 39.2 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean, 98.8 percent in Asia and 6 percent in the United States. 04 percent.
During the pandemic, more than 23.2 million people fell ill, more than 806 thousand people died and 14.7 million people recovered. The United States, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Spain have suffered the most from the coronavirus.
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