More and more strict measures to fight against Covid-19

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A member of healthcare staff gives a document to a Polish man at a Covid-19 testing center outside a Warsaw hospital, October 27, 2020. REUTERS / Kacper Pempel

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This week again, the world news revolves around the coronavirus.

Direction Austria, Italy, Mexico and Poland to find out more about the living conditions of the inhabitants of these countries, more or less affected by the pandemic.

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Austria is currently experiencing its third confinement: everything is closed or almost ... The ski resorts are open.

But while hotels are only allowed to accommodate business travelers, some host visitors eager to get to the slopes, which the government does not like, says

Isaure Hiace

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In Italy,

Anne Le Nir

, it is the restaurateurs and cafetiers who are blowing a wind of anger.

They have had to comply with anti-Covid measures for months requiring them to no longer serve customers at dinner time.

And now there is the ban on take-out, from 6 p.m., for cafes and pubs.

In Mexico, there is no confinement in the strict sense, nor a curfew.

The capital Mexico City is going through a critical phase, hospitals are on the verge of saturation, but many inhabitants continue to move, in particular informal workers and street vendors who do not have the possibility of staying at home. meetings of more than 10 people are prohibited.

This is also the case in the countryside, where the authorities find it very difficult to enforce this restriction on gatherings, says

Emmanuelle Steels

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In Poland, winds of anger in the mountains… In the southern region of the country, several hotels, restaurants and ski slopes are announcing that they will reopen next week.

And this, while the restrictions to fight against Covid-19 will be extended from next Monday, from our correspondent in Warsaw,

Sarah Bakaloglou

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