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People are checking in to check in for a British Airways flight to Heathrow Airport on Friday at Nice Airport in southern France.British holidaymakers in France wondered if they would return home early on Friday to avoid having to isolate themselves for 14 days after the British.government resolution to re-impose quarantine restrictions in France amid a recent increase in coronavirus infections.
PARIS – New COVID-19 outbreaks are disrupting the peak summer holiday season in much of Europe, where the government in some countries is re-enseviating restrictions on travellers, re-closing nightclubs, banning fireworks and expanding mask orders, even in hotel areas.
“Unfortunately, this virus is playing the ball,” British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News.
The waves have caused alarm across Europe, which suffered enormously in the spring, but it turns out that in recent months it has largely tamed coronavirus in a way that the United States, with its lauded clinical prowess and additional time to prepare, does not appear to be The hardest-hit countries on the continent, Britain, Italy, France and Spain, recorded a total of around 140,000 deaths.
In addition to alcohol-filled clubs and street parties, giant circles of family reunions, full of hugs and kisses, have been cited as a source of new epidemics in several European countries.
A new public awareness crusade carried out in the Spanish Canary Islands describes a circle of relatives gathered for a grandfather’s birthday, with others who take off their masks and kiss. Grandpa ends up in a hospital bed with COVID-19.
In France, thousands of Britons on holiday rushed home on Friday to have to be quarantined for 14 days after the British resolve to re-impose restrictions on France due to increased infections there.Ferries added more trips to England and trains ran out of space.
Some of the toughest new measures have been announced in Spain, which has registered close to 50,000 COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days.
Health Minister Salvador Illa, after an emergency assembly with regional leaders, said the closure of the country’s nightclubs was ordered and visits to nursing homes will be limited to a user consistent with the resident’s day for just an hour.
“We are rebels, ” said Illa.
In Italy, which is also facing an increase in cases, coastal towns have announced new restrictions, adding a ban on fireworks on beaches.These adjustments came just before Italy’s biggest summer festival, Ferragosto, which millions of Italians celebrate across the sea, in the mountains or abroad.
The mayor of Anzio has banned access to the beach throughout the night, while San Felice Circeo, a popular weekend for the Romans, has ordered an outdoor mask to be used. On the exclusive island of Capri, an order is not easy for an outdoor mask from night.until dawn it was prolonged through the mayor on the day.
The masks are also now located on the streets of Amalfi, a picturesque seaside resort town.
While some of Italy’s more than 200 groups of infections were caused by consumers of crowded beach dance clubs, the governor of Calabria, the region that bureaucracies in Italy, ordered the closure of those nightclubs.
Italy’s Ministry of Fitness said 574 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Friday, the highest number since 28 May.
Epidemics and new restrictions in Europe should come as no surprise, said Josh Michaud, associate director of global fitness policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington.
“Even the smallest defect in armor can lead to an epidemic if you are not careful,” Michaud said.”In no country have we approached collective immunity and we don’t have a vaccine.”
In Greece, the government insists that others wear masks for a week indoors and outdoors in public spaces after returning from domestic holiday destinations with the highest incidence of COVID-19.
Meetings of more than nine people on two popular Greek hotel islands, Paros and Antiparos, were banned, and the ban on restaurants, bars and nightclubs that operated later expanded to more parts of the country, adding Athens.The steps came when Greece recorded its second-highest number of infections daily: 254 new cases.
In France, amid fears of a peak moment of contagion, the head of the country’s national fitness service said Paris and Marseille had been declared spaces at risk.”The stage is getting worse from week to week,” the official, Jerome Salomon, said on France Inter radio.
The British government has said it is forced to impose the quarantine requirement on others returning from France in a slight increase of 66% infections in France last week.
Philip Alston, who cared for 3 cats for a French couple in Paris, is reluctant to return to Britain.
“Fortunately, they said they had emergency aid in this case,” he said before boarding a Eurostar exercise to London.So I am because I spent some smart time worrying about cats and exploring Paris.
The quarantine resolution is a blow to the French tourism industry, which is largely based on British travellers.
There have also been worrying progress in other parts of the world:
The death toll in India surpassed that of Britain to become the fourth-highest in the world, with another record accumulated in a one-day case on Friday.The death toll has fallen to more than 48,000, the United States, with more than 167,000; Brazil, with more than 105,000; And Mexico, with more than 55,000 inhabitants.
The New Zealand government has prolonged the closure of its largest city, Auckland, for 12 days as it tries to eliminate its first national epidemic by more than 3 months, involving 30 people.Until the group found out on Tuesday, New Zealand had spent 102 days without reports of spread of the infection in the community.The only known cases concerned travelers from abroad.
A man in his twenties became the youngest to die of coronavirus in Australia.It was one of 14 new deaths and 372 new infections reported through fitness officials in Victoria, a Melbourne-based outbreak.
In Toronto, fitness officials said that up to 550 others may have been exposed to COVID-19 at a strip club last week and suggested they quarantine the property for 14 days.
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