LONDON (AP) – Protesters took to the streets of London, Tel Aviv and other cities on Saturday to protest against coronavirus restrictions, denouncing how measures have affected life even with emerging infection rates in many locations and the death toll around the global coming. in a million.
In the UK, the most recent official estimates released on Friday showed that new infections and hospital coronavirus income doubled every seven to eight days. Britain has the highest number of deaths in Europe since the start of the pandemic, with 41,821 related deaths. to the virus.
The government recently banned social gatherings of more than six other people in the hope that this would oppose a strong accumulation of COVID-19 cases and warned that stricter restrictions can be envisaged.
Saturday’s demonstration in Trafalgar Square, on the theme “Resist and Act for Freedom,” ended in clashes between protesters and London police as officials tried to disperse a lot of other people with banners and banners scribbled with anti-restriction messages such as “Now it’s Tyrannia. “
London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned that the city could simply climb curfews, force pubs to close previous visits, and ban home visits in an attempt to restrict accumulation in new instances in the city.
“I am incredibly engaged through the most recent evidence that I have noticed today from public fitness experts on the acceleration rate at which COVID-19 is now spreading here in London,” Khan said Friday. be needed in London to slow the spread of the virus.
In Israel, meanwhile, the government has ordered a complete shutdown that began on Friday and coincided with major Jewish holidays, which are celebrated with a circle of family gatherings and giant prayer services.
Protesters in swimsuits piled up on a Tel Aviv beach and waved black and pink flags evoking protest movements.
In Australia, about a hundred protesters piled up in Melbourne’s coastal suburb of Elwood on Saturday before being dispersed by police.
Police in the domain tried to deter the parties to the conflict from the lockout from protesting, but demonstrations have become routine. Victoria Police said in a press release that “the habit of egocentrics who brazenly forget the commandos will not be tolerated. “
In Romania’s capital Bucharest, several hundred more people protested against virus restrictions and added mandatory use of masks in schools. Approximately 2. 8 million young people in Romania started the school year on Monday and schools took precautions to prevent epidemics.
Romania is among the countries that have noticed a new peak in the cases shown, adding a national record of 1,713 previous cases in the week and 1,333 more on Saturday. In total, Romania has recorded 111,550 cases shown of COVID-19 and 4,402 deaths from the disease since the onset of the pandemic.
Protesters in Bucharest University Square paralelism between pandemic cover measures and Nazi regimes. One speaker compared the measures to the torture of the dissidents of communism.
Hard language and comparisons echoed those of conservative protesters at rallies in dozens of US cities. But it’s not the first time At the beginning of the pandemic, they added some that effectively emphasized governors and local officials to lift restrictions on business and social activities.
Experts said some state government had abandoned restrictions too quickly, allowing the virus to continue spreading this summer in areas of the country that had experienced the full force of the pandemic before this year.