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Protections such as dressing in masks, which have proven to be divisive in the United States, now prevail across the continent, helping others live their lives at a calculated risk.
By Norimitsu Onishi
PARIS – In the early days of the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron suggested that the French wage a “war” against the coronavirus. Today, his message is “to be informed to live with the virus”.
From a full-rule confrontation to the containment of the Cold War, France and much of the rest of Europe have opted for coexistence as infections continue to increase, summer retreats in a Decy autumn, and the momentary wave haunts the continent.
Having given up hopes of eliminating the virus or having a vaccine within weeks, Europeans have largely returned to painting and school, leading lives as usually as imaginable amid a persistent pandemic that has already killed another 215,000 people in Europe.
The technique contrasts radically with that of the United States, where shield restrictions against the virus have sown political department and many regions have prompted the reopening of schools, department stores, and restaurants without established fundamental protocols. as many deaths as in Europe, but among a much smaller population.
Europeans, for the most part, are taking advantage of the lessons learned so hard in the early stage of the pandemic: the desire to wear mask and practice social estating, the importance of testing and tracking, and the benefits of an agile and local response. All these measures, strengthened or relaxed as desired, are aimed at preventing the kind of national blockade that paralyzed the continent and paralyzed economies this year.
“It is not imaginable to prevent the virus,” said Emmanuel André, a leading virologist in Belgium and a former spokesman for the government’s Covid-19 corridor group. “It’s about maintaining balance. And we only have a few teams to do that. »
She added: “People are tired. They don’t need to go to war anymore. “
Martial language has given more pressed assurances.
“We are in a phase of life with the virus,” said Roberto Speranza, the Italian Health Minister, the first country in Europe to impose a national blockade. In an interview with the newspaper La Stampa, Mr Speranza said yes “. No infection rate,” Italy now has a much higher supply to deal with an outbreak of infections.
“There will be no closure, ” said Speranza.
However, it remains.
The new infections have soared in recent weeks, specifically in France and Spain. France recorded more than 10,000 cases in a day without getting married last week. The jump is not unexpected as the total number of tests consistent with the formed, now about a million consistent with the highest week and now it is more than 10 times what it was in the spring.
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