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Coronavirus.Johnson announces the lockdown of England for the next four weeks
The list of countries that are once again ordering the confinement of their population in the face of the advance of the second wave of the pandemic is growing in Europe.
The announcements from France and Germany on Wednesday and from Belgium on Friday were joined yesterday by the United Kingdom, Greece and Portugal.
ENGLAND
Despite himself, and as much as he has tried to safeguard the economy by betting on local confinements, Boris Johnson had to make a decision that he has been saying for months that he wanted to avoid at all costs.
England, and, imminently, the rest of the United Kingdom, will return to the harsh confinement of March from next week, although, this time, schools, from nurseries to universities, will remain open.
The total closure for English society, which will see how the blinds of its activity and social life go down again,
will begin this Thursday and will not reopen until, at the earliest, next December 2.
"We have to be humble when it comes to dealing with nature. Unfortunately, and as we are seeing across much of Europe,
the virus is spreading even faster than the worst-case scenario predicted by our scientific advisers
. His predictions now suggest that, unless we act now, we could see many more deaths in this country, at the rate of several thousand a day, a mortality peak that, unfortunately, would exceed even that of April, "Johnson noted yesterday.
Right now, and according to calculations by the National Statistics Office,
more than 50,000 people contract the coronavirus every day in England
, and, if no action is taken, in just a few weeks it is estimated that 500 people could die again every 24 hours victims of the pandemic.
PORTUGAL
Despite being one of the most forward-thinking countries and its management being applauded in the first hour of the pandemic, the situation after the summer months has been worsening in the neighboring country.
The figures have been exceeding the worst records of March and April for days
.
Only last Friday, 4,656 new infected were notified, one of the worst figures of the entire coronavirus crisis.
The Government, which was applying increasingly restrictive measures in the face of the increase in numbers such as the mandatory use of the mask on the street, announced yesterday the confinement of municipalities with high risk of contagion of coronavirus as of November 4, reported Eph.
This new measure affects 70% of the population and it will only be possible to leave home to go to work, to school or to shop.
"If we do not have to do anything essential, we must stay at home. We can go to work, to school, to shop, go out to do physical exercise, assist people who need it ... But the rule is that we must stay at home ", explained the prime minister,
António Costa
, after the extraordinary council of ministers.
In addition, businesses must close at 10 p.m. and companies must establish staggered hours.
Costa is going to study together with President
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
, the need to re-declare a state of emergency in the municipalities affected by this second confinement.
FRANCE
Less than six months after the end of the first lockdown, the French must remain in their homes this weekend.
But a part of the population, particularly the small merchants, supported by mayors, is less inclined to comply with the rules.
Last Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron announced the reconfinement of a France "overwhelmed by a second wave, harder and more deadly."
The measures of this reduced confinement, which came into force last Friday, are clear: as in spring,
you can only "take air" for a maximum of one hour and within a radius of one kilometer from your home.
The exceptions also allow shopping or going to the doctor.
But all restaurants, bars and businesses considered "non-essential" must remain closed.
ITALY
The Italian Government has not yet announced a bolt, but it is already studying a new decree with more restrictive measures given the advance of the virus in the transalpine country, which has taken longer to reach the second European wave of Covid-19.
The Italian media suggest that the cities that could suffer confinement in the coming weeks would be
Rome, Milan, Naples or Turin.
"We are living hours of reflection at the European level: Belgium, France and other countries have declared a lockdown," said Foreign Minister
Luigi Di Maio
at an event organized by the newspaper
Il Foglio.
GREECE
It announced a partial closure, with restaurants and other leisure activities closed starting Tuesday in major Greek cities.
"We must act now,"
Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
warned yesterday
.
Greece has not been one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, but it has seen the increase in cases stabilize since the beginning of October.
BELGIUM
It announced last Friday a battery of new restrictions against the coronavirus, including the closure of all its "non-essential" shops until mid-December,
with the aim of "avoiding the collapse" of health services
.
This reconfinement means that non-essential stores and those in the service sector will remain closed until mid-December.
GERMANY
To try to contain the contagion curve, starting tomorrow a series of new limitations will come into force in the country, including the closure of restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas, museums and gyms.
In addition, according to Efe,
in the groups that meet on public roads, there may not be people from more than two families
.
Members of a family are understood as those who live under the same roof.
The plan is for the measures to be in force until the end of November but it does not rule out that they will have to be prolonged.
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