London The moment the coronavirus wave threatens to spill bloodless water on Europeans’ main hopes for the summer holidays, as groups begin to emerge in key tourist destinations.
European governments are determined to avoid embarking on widespread blockades as the bodies multiply, in the hope of allowing the holiday season to continue as an economic and mental boost.
But the strategy of the wave of the moment of restrictions purely located in reaction to the clusters, as well as the exhortations to wear masks and practice social estrangement, can be tested as tourists travel the continent.
Greece has reopened its doors to tourists despite the dangers while trying to rebuild its pandemic economy. Bloomberg
Greece, which has been the wonder sign of the continent for keeping COVID-19 firmly under control, saw an increase in new infections this month, more of which come from tourists.
The country depends on tourism for about a fifth of its GDP, and the OECD expects a contraction of at least 8% this year. At this point, the Greek government is in a position to assume the threat of fitness as the value to pay for the economy to rise again.
“We all have to be careful,” Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said, “but the economy and tourism will have to survive.”
He said that he expected to escalale instances, still only 20 or 30 per day, but argued that it was “different from a wave of time” and would be controllable through local locks.
It is not yet known whether Greece’s measures will reassure tourists: air traffic has still fallen by 75% compared to last year, beaches would be largely empty and hotels are reducing their fares by up to 40%.
Spain, a country dependent on tourism, has recorded more than 1,300 cases per day in the following week, and the tourist hotspot of Barcelona has had to start reducing the pleasures of summer.
Access to beaches has been restricted, restaurants and bars impose social distance and close earlier, and others have been asked to leave the space only if necessary.
This revives the unwanted blockade of Spain as the epicentre of COVID-19.
“We are obliged to take this step back,” said Meritxell Budo, spokesman for the Generalitat de Catalunya, when the brakes arrived. noticed in weeks. “
Spain’s Tourism Minister Maria Reyes Maroto has promised to curb the Catalan epidemic amid warnings from France that she could close the border with Spain.
“We’re a little more optimistic. Catalonia has already reduced the number of contagions in the last 3 days,” he said midweek. Let us hope that with this greater knowledge we will not have to close a border which for us is very much for mobility with our European partners.”
France itself is suffering with 208 active poles, with the biggest concern being Brittany, a popular hotel, and the Mediterranean region around Nice and Marseille.
Brittany has recorded 123 new cases since 15 July and a maximum reproduction rate of 2.6, and in some cities it is now mandatory to wear a mask even indoors. The domain was much less affected by the first wave, which killed more than 30,000 people in France.
The French themselves, which tourists, are guilty. “It’s for a stay of precautions and the mix of other people that accompanies the summer,” said Michale Kirry, prefect of the state of Brittany.
In Italy, the Lazio region, which includes Rome, is also reinforcing restrictions after registering more than a dozen new instances a day, many of them from abroad.
It’s not all bad news. Portugal had to lock lisbon in the following month to cope with a sudden increase, however, infection rates have increased in resorts such as the Algarve and the islands of Madeira and Azores.
But look to say that to tourists, who remain en masse. Hotels in the Algarve are 40% occupied, leaving 3 times more unemployed than at this time last year.
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