Coronavirus in Europe | France, UK and Italy apply new restrictions to stop second wave

A few days before the start of the vaccination campaign against coronavirus in a large part of EuropeThere are several countries of the old continent in which the increase in infected people does not stop. Faced with this situation, some governments applied new restrictions over the weekend in an attempt to put an end to the so-called second wave of the disease.

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France, fifth country in the world in number of infected and seventh in number of deaths from coronavirus, tall from Saturday the program of curfew in 15 departments. As a result of this measure, around six million people will not be able to leave their homes after 6 p.m.

As detailed by the agency AFP, over the past two days, the country has recorded an average close to 20,000 daily cases of coronavirus. This figure worries the government, which expects a sharp decrease in infections, new restrictions are not excluded.

In the United KingdomPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he will tighten isolation measures after a new record 58,000 infections per day.

“I decided that it was necessary to do what is necessary to contain this virus”, anticipated the head of state in BBC, What did not rule out the closure of a new school, although he expressed that he would prefer to avoid it.

During, Italy will return from Monday to the “orange zone”, which will allow travel between municipalities and the reopening of shops, but will return to the “red zone” on Tuesday and Wednesday, during the traditional feast of San Esteban, to avoid crowds.

On the other hand, the government of Swiss, who decreed a month of strict quarantine after relying on civic responsibility as a solution to the health crisis, admitted this Sunday to having underestimated the pandemic, which is currently hitting the country with more than 4000 cases and 100 deaths per day.

“Between July and September, we underestimated the situation. We thought we could keep the virus under control, but that did not happen, ”admitted the new President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin.

Alert in Portugal for the British strain

On the other hand, it concerns Portugal the advancement of the new British strain of coronavirus on the mainland, where the authorities have confirmed 16 cases this Sunday.

According to experts, the arrival of the variant of the virus in the region was only a matter of time, after a week, the local health ministry confirmed its presence in the Madeira archipelago.

On Monday, island authorities registered 18 infected people, 17 of them “from the UK”, while the remaining case corresponded to a traveler who came to the archipelago “from the region of Lisbon and the Tagus valley”.

The new strain of SARS-Cov-2 detected in the UK has forced millions of Britons into jail and prompted many countries to establish travel restrictions from various European countries due to their high degree of contagiousness.