Parts of Spain and Italy face restrictions as Ireland prepares to be the first EU country to re-impose national blockade
Last modified: 20 October 2020 21. 07 BST
The regions of Spain and Italy have returned to the blockade and Ireland will do so from Wednesday, as European countries continue to report new spikes in infection in Covid and governments are struggling to involve the wave of the pandemic.
The northern Spanish region of Navarra, where the number of instances consisting of 100,000 inhabitants is 945 to 312 nationally, announced on Thursday a two-week closure that will be stricter than the measures imposed on Madrid through the central government.
The entry and exit of Navarra will only be allowed for work reasons, university studies, for reasons of pleasure or emergency, as reported by the regional government. Restaurants, cafes and bars will be closed, while they can open at 40% of their capacity but will close at nine o’clock at night
The blockade in and around the capital, a source of heated disputes between the central and regional governments, will expire on Saturday, as the media reports that regional government is a curfew.
The central government said Tuesday that it also contemplates curfews to cope with an increase in the number of national daily instances reaching 38,000 on Monday.
Imposing a curfew in Madrid and perhaps beyond would require the invocation of a state of emergency, health minister Salvador Illa said, adding that an era of more than two weeks would require that of some opposition parties.
Ireland is prepared to be the first EU country to return to the blockade, Taoiseach Micheel Martin showed on Monday night, issuing a national order to “stay home” but insisting that schools will remain open.
The measures will take effect for six weeks from Wednesday and will see the closure of all non-essential outlets, bars and restaurants restricted to takeaways and others forced to stay at home with a limit of 5 km for exercise.
In Italy, the southern region of Campania said it would ask the central government to allow a curfew in the middle of the night from this weekend, after the northern region of Lombardy was given the green light for a similar closure of 11 p. m. 5 a. m. on Thursday.
Unlike the time the epidemic first hit in March, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is trying to give cities and regions more freedom to slow themselves as infections build up in the country.
Local officials in both regions warned that their fitness systems were in danger of being overwhelmed, and the mayor of Naples said Campania had only 15 beds of extensive care and that experts predicted that admissions to the ICU could increase from one hundred to six hundred in Lombardy.
The Polish parliament, meanwhile, postponed an emergency debate on new regulations to increase the number of doctors needed to deal with Covid-19 instances and make the face mask dressed in legally binding public, after opposition parties demand clarification.
Doctors demanded more for the fitness formula after reports of dying patients, while ambulances simply cannot find a hospital to admit them. Poland reported on Tuesday 9,291 new infections, its highest daily number at the time.
Hungary is also withholding new measures despite the growing complaint of Viktor Orbán’s government’s reaction. During the first wave, Hungary recorded a small number of infections and deaths.
This month, however, more Hungarians died of coronavirus than in the last 4 months combined. According to the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC), the country has lately had the third highest rate of cell mortality in seven days, consistent with millions, in the Czech Republic. Romania.
Russia recorded a record 16,319 new cases on Tuesday, adding 4,999 in the capital Moscow, while Germany closed the Bavarian municipality of Berchtesgadener Land from 2pm on Tuesday.
Schools, day care centers and restaurants are closed and citizens are confined to their homes unless there is a valid explanation as to why they are absent. 19 in seven days in the country, with 272. 8 new contagions consisting of 100,000 inhabitants.
The federal government has insisted that it will at one point check the national shutdown at all costs, however some officials have proposed in recent days to demarcate the spaces to involve the spread of the virus.
Lothar Wieler, director of Germany’s disease agency, said last week that if the closure of entire districts had seemed “unimaginable” nine months ago, you can now see some states taking that step.
Greece has abandoned a plan to allow a limited number of spectators to participate in sporting events, the prime minister’s workplace said Tuesday. “Playing games even with a few spectators . . . would send the message to the citizens,” he said. after the country registered 438 new infections in Covid-19 on Monday.
Beyond Europe, daily infections in Iran have surpassed 5,000, a new record. There were also 322 new deaths. President Hassan Rouhani said the most affected country in the Middle East now “faces a wave of major viruses” than at the beginning of the year.