To provide travellers to Europe with a further review of coronavirus infections and restrictions, the European Union has established a gentle traffic formula with color-coded zones at threat levels: green, yellow and red.
There is also a gray domain for spaces where knowledge is insufficient.
The rate of new infections, or incidence, consisting of 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days and the positive COVID-19 rate tests the color assigned to a given region.
On Friday, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm will publish on its EU map highlighting the colour attributed to a given region.
The site already offers a review of regulations for each of the 27 EU member states.
So far, each EU member state has known threatened spaces at its own discretion. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the technique created a mosaic that is difficult to decipher.
“It’s hard to know where you can travel, what regulations you meet when you get there, and what regulations apply when you get home,” he said.
“We want to coordinate these measures to make Europeans alive. “
Germany’s leading institute for infectious diseases, the Robert Koch Institute, which has played a key role in defining the German government’s coronavirus policy, will adjust its measures to claim regions as at-risk spaces.
SoArray the firm has used 50 new infections consisting of 100,000 citizens in the beyond seven days as a reference, not the 14 days now prescribed.
Lithuania, for its part, expects its reference to move from 25 new infections consisting of 100,000 inhabitants to 50 new infections.
Munich has the last major city to exceed the key coronavirus threshold in Germany. In the capital, Berlin, the government has set a curfew at night, the first in 70 years, in reaction to a dramatic accumulation of COVID-19 cases. All companies in Berlin will close at least 23 hours until the end of October. The number of people who can gather outdoors at night is limited to five.
The Czech Republic, praised in the past for its reaction to COVID-19, is now on the brink of a moment of lockdown. The state of emergency has been in effect since October 5. Face masks are mandatory and churches, where making a song is prohibited, are limited to 10 other people. Shopping malls have been told to turn off Wi-Fi to discourage young people from congregating.
The Spanish cupboard ordered a 15-day state of emergency in Madrid to combat the growing number of coronavirus cases. The resolution allowed the government to put quarantine measures into force across the country, prompting protests. The government rejected the national government’s calls for stricter measures to be put in place for the epidemic.
The bars of Paris remain closed after a strong accumulation of coronavirus cases. Two more cities, Toulouse and Montpellier, raised their alerts to the maximum. On Saturday, France recorded nearly 27,000 cases, its highest count since the outbreak. police carried out checks to ensure that bars were closed and restaurants provided social distance.
Poland has implemented new measures to stop the pandemic after reporting record infections for the fifth day in a row, but schools remain open. People over 60 to 65 years old have a special time to buy food every morning from 10 a. m. to noon. now mandatory for each and every one all the time. The country of 38 million more people has so far recorded 121,638 cases shown and 2,972 deaths.
In Slovakia, up to six other people can meet from 13 October, members of the family circle are an exception. Face masks are mandatory and all public occasions are prohibited, adding devout facilities in churches. Fitness and wellness centres are closed, while restaurants are closed. It is forbidden to serve food indoors. This September 30 photo shows hockey enthusiasts in Bratislava protesting against measures against coronavirus.
The government has introduced a three-tier alert formula for coronavirus cases in England. The new formula classifies all spaces as “medium”, “high” or “very high”. Liverpool in north-west England is expected to be level, which will see restrictions tighten, such as the closure of gyms, pubs and casinos.
Author: Michael Nyantakyi Oti
Luxembourg’s Foreign and European Minister Jean Asselborn criticized the figure of 50 consistent with 100,000 inhabitants, saying it is a German invention and that this is what the German fitness government can face by tracking the chains of infection in the country.
Luxembourg’s main envoy stated that luxembourg had carried out extensive tests from the outset and was investigating all cases and, due to the accumulation of proven cases, had been declared a threat zone. The diplomat, who also leads Luxembourg’s European affairs, abstained from voting on the new formula after saying that his country was “punished” for conducting large-scale tests.
Luxembourg is the European leader in testing, with more than 6,000 tests consisting of 100,000 inhabitants, Germany is far away, with 1,300 tests. Bulgaria, where Germany has classified only two districts as a threat zone, is left behind with 380.
Germany has described all of Luxembourg as an area since 25 September, at which point the country has been classified as such since July.
Luxembourg claims that its maximum infection rate is the result of extensive mass testing and that it is punished for the good luck of the programme.
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The EU’s Austrian Minister Karoline Edtstadler criticised the new criteria for being inaccurate and noted that “most parts of Europe are red. “
“We want to be able to better assess the threat and freedom of movement and goods at the same time,” he added.
Austria is particularly involved in the winter tourism in the Alps being affected if new threatened spaces are declared.
Currently, 19 of the 27 EU states have an incidence of more than 50, matching another 100,000 people in the last 14 days. Twelve countries have a check positivity rate of more than 4%.
Germany, for its part, has an occurrence of 34 and a check positivity rate of 1. 4%, so at the time of writing this article, it would be classified into an orange zone, but the scenario is radically different when you look at the rates in the big cities and regions of Germany, adding Berlin.
The state of the EU that would be described as “green” is Finland.
The EU formula for tricolor fires for coronaviruses is, in the end, just a tip, which means that EU countries are not legally obliged to put the formula into force or put into force, and Member States will still be able to put the recommended measures into force. This will allow them to introduce quarantine and testing for travellers if they wish, but they will not be required to do so. EU rules will also not take precedence over national regulations. Therefore, in Germany, existing regulations in various federal states would possibly do so. stay as such.
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At the moment, it is also unclear whether the EU will introduce uniform quarantine regulations, if others wear masks, estre distance requirements, alcohol bans, sports restrictions, school closures and other measures. . . However, German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth said it was “a first step, which of course will have to be followed through others. “
Regardless of the debate on the soft traffic system, EU states have continued to impose their own new restrictions this week. Schools have closed in the Czech Republic, for example, and the Netherlands announced a ban on the sale of alcohol at night and closed bars and restaurants across the country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking to the Council of the Regions in Brussels via a video link, warned that she opposes some other blockade: “We will have to show that we have learned our lesson. “
“We will have to ask European citizens to be careful, to play by the rules, to keep their distance, to cover their mouths and noses and to do what they can to engage the virus while maintaining economic activity. “
Europeans accumulated at record speed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, some voluntarily while many others did so out of fear. The economic frenzy would possibly be depriving the economy of the blow to the arm it desperately needs.