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European countries are battering coronavirus infection spikes with new locks, curfews, facial controls and virus tracking apps on smartphones.
In a small hint of success, the Spanish government said it would enlarge the state of emergency in the Madrid region when it expires on Saturday, but that it will resort to more local measures.
But as the resurgence of the global pandemic spreads across the continent, local and national governments are also facing increasing opposition to new measures. The British government announced Tuesday that it would impose further action in Greater Manchester, prompting the wrath of the region’s mayor. .
In La Haye, the bar and place to eat failed to legally challenge an order to close their doors for at least 4 weeks. A protest in Portugal forced the government to abandon a plan to make a country-wide search request mandatory.
Amid public frustration, some countries are throwing a festive carrot at other people tired of the virus, saying that deceptive action can now pave the way for some other measures before Christmas.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel invoked the holiday era this weekend and other countries are doing the same. Merkel told her country, “What winter it will be, what our Christmas will be, it will be in the days and weeks to come. “
Health Minister Salvador Illa said Tuesday that the government would enlarge the state of emergency in the Madrid region when it expires on Saturday, but that it could begin to introduce curfews at COVID-19 hotspots across the country.
Illa said the partial blockade in Madrid in recent weeks had helped end community transmission, making it one of the largest coronavirus groups in Europe.
However, it noted that the number of cases in Madrid remained high. The region has reported more than 29,000 cases in the last two weeks, although on Tuesday it recorded 354 new cases in 24 hours, the fourth highest rate in Spain.
Illa said he compared to Spanish regional governments the option of agreeing specific curfews as the country approached one million officially registered instances.
“To be very clear, ” said Illa. ” Very hard weeks are coming. “
Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed strict restrictions on Britain’s second-largest city after talks with Big Manchester officials failed to agree on the currency for others whose livelihoods will be affected by the new measures.
Johnson’s government resists advice from its clinical advisory committee of a short-blocking “circuit breaker” to stop the spread of coronavirus. Instead, it has followed a three-tier formula for England, with spaces classified as medium-risk, high- and very high-risk. At the top level, pubs have to close and others cannot be combined with members of other households.
Greater Manchester joins the Liverpool and Lancashire regions of north-west England, which have been placed at Level 3, the level.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, a member of the opposition Labour Party, was looking for more money for staff and businesses affected by restrictions in his region of nearly 3 million people, and criticized Johnson for moving away from negotiations.
Other UK countries have their own fitness policies and take slightly different approaches.
Prime Minister Micheal Martin has announced another difficult closure: as of Wednesday, non-essential retail stores will have to close, restaurants will be limited to takeaways, others will have to stay within five kilometers (three miles) of their homes, and visits to other families are prohibited.
This is a virtual return to the serious restrictions imposed by the government in March, even though schools, structure sites and production industries will remain open. Martin said that if others comply with the restrictions, which will be in effect until December 1, the country will celebrate Christmas “in a meaningful way. “
Ireland, with a population of about five million, has recorded 18 and five2 coronavirus deaths.
Uppsala, a university in the city north of Stockholm, has on Tuesday become the first position in Sweden to introduce local restrictions, with suggested citizens for physical contact and parties and stay away from public transport.
“In Uppsala, you now have to be even more careful,” said Anders Tegnell, who is credited with being Sweden’s highly debatable COVID-19 technique to keep giant portions of society open.
He added that the restrictions would last two weeks and could be extended and applied to Sweden. Uppsala’s restaurants and schools were not affected.
A ruling in The Hague rejected an appeal through more than 60 Dutch bars and restaurants to overturn a four-week government closure order.
Lawyer Simon van Zijll, representing bars and restaurants, warned in court that the Dutch hotel industry faces a “wave of bankruptcies” caused by the employer closure order, which he described as “random and disproportionate. “
The Netherlands has one of Europe’s infection rates in terms of resurgence of the virus.
The national government then sought to make its COVID-19 tracking application mandatory, but a large protest forced it to abandon the plan, which has been widely criticized as unworkable and unconstitutional.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa said in a television interview On Monday night that the widely challenged decision, to be voted on later this week in Parliament, requires further debate.
Parliament is expected to do so to wear an outdoor mask on Friday.
The country recorded its number of coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, with 38 patients succumbing to the disease, which raised the total number of deaths shown in COVID-19 to 1,211.
Budapest’s central government cancelled most of the occasions scheduled for the national holiday on 23 October and asked local municipalities to do the same. The festive season in Hungary has already been affected: the Christmas fair in the capital, one of the most important and the most visited in Central and Eastern Europe, has also been cancelled.
AP news from all over Europe contributed to the report.
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