The warnings of a “new wave of coronavirus in Europe,” which are currently encroaching on European media, are only catastrophic for the tourism industry, a backlash that is opposed to governments reopening their borders and economies and damaging to travellers concerned with escaping months of confinement, but a frightening sign that a momentary blockade may be inevitable for at least some regions.
The situation, which changes from day to day and from one country to another, makes it difficult to wait for what will happen. Recent maximum clinical discussions raise the concept that the dreaded “second wave” would possibly not exist at all and that, on the contrary, the continent and the global are suffering from a “single wonderful wave”.
In the absence of evidence of seasonal variations, such as common influenza and other corona viruses, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the initial coronavirus pandemic is advancing and accelerating.
In the face of a resurgence or “seasonal return” of the disease, WHO recommends not thinking about the seasons and yet take steps to slow down transmission that appear to accelerate through mass meetings, according to spokeswoman Margaret Harris.
“What we all want to perceive is that it’s a new virus, and even though it’s a respiratory virus and even though the respiratory viruses in the afterlife tend to generate those other seasonal waves, it behaves differently,” he said.
The United States and Brazil are strong examples, with other seasons still among the countries of maximum contagion.
“It’s becoming a big wave, ” said Harris. “It’s passing up and down a little bit. It’s flattening it and turning it into anything that throws at your feet.
WHO had warned that countries were facing an “immediate peak” if they continued to abandon lockout measures.
Governments across Europe, as well as WHO and European Union fitness officials who largely follow peaks in cases, are revealing new restrictions literally every day, adding to the list of countries marked ‘red’ and virtually terminating arrangements known as ‘air bridges’ agreed between countries that are considered to have the virus under agreement to allow their readers to enter and pass unre quarantined.
14-day quarantines are re-imposed on tourists returning from countries suffering severe relapses, particularly Spain and Belgium, while governments closely monitor others such as Luxembourg and Croatia, where contagion is increasing.
The Netherlands, France, Britain, Germany and Belgium have begged their citizens not to go to Spanish Catalonia due to the increased number of coronavirus cases in recent weeks.
Germany, which performed better than many of its neighbours, has noticed an increase in new cases. The head of the country’s disease prevention firm accused citizens of not complying with the rules and of taking the necessary precautions, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs begged others who did not in the most affected Spanish regions who are dealing with new outbreaks, adding Aragon, Catalonia and Navarra.
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The UK also warned against the non-essentials for Spain, adding the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, and is applying around 40 to returning tourists, while contemplating adding countries to its red list.
Spain, meanwhile, which recorded 280610 cases of viruses and 28436 deaths, imposed new controls in the worst-affected areas, restricting internal and outdoor meetings in restaurants and cafes, and even at home, to 10 people.
In Madrid, bars and nightclubs, which have caused many new infections, will now have to close at 1.30 a.m., while consumers should show their identity number before entering to facilitate full tracking. The regional government is asking the central government to administer PCR evidence to others arriving at Madrid Barajas airport.
In Belgium, where the Covid-19 rate has almost tripled this month from 5.3 to 15.1 consisting of 100,000 inhabitants and the number of cases has been higher than 615 to 1751, the government has also tightened restrictions, such as the number of other persons authorised to meet, social estrangement and mandatory mask use.
In France, officials warn others about surveillance that is involved about the dangers of a “second wave,” but do not recommend action.
According to figures released earlier this week, the number of instances fell to almost part of the 1,000 recorded last Thursday and Friday. France recorded about 5,000 cases a day at the height of the pandemic.
The United States, where more than 4.3 million people have been infected, continues to live among the eu Red List countries and has crossed the figure of 150,000 killed by Covid-19, the death toll in the world.
The State Department advises Americans to “avoid foreign travel because COVID-19 has a global effect.” In countries where travel advertising features are still available, U.S. citizens will have to set up a quick return to the United States, unless they are ready to stay abroad indefinitely. “
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On the other hand, and spokespersons for the tourism industry, others have pushed for governments to find new tactics to verify to save industries and allow others to do so safely.
“We want to find a way to reopen the ‘red countries’,” John Holland-Kaye, executive leader at Heathrow Airport, told the Telegraph. “Testing is the only viable way to do this in the absence of a vaccine. Many countries on the Red List have millions of other people who do not have the disease and travel. This is holding back the economic recovery.”
The consensus among scientists is that the virus is widespread among the world’s population and has spread to 188 countries to date. What we’re seeing are “essentially localized peaks or a localized pullback from a lot of cases,” according to Linda Bauld, a professor of public aptitude at the University of Edinburgh at the Guardian.
From WHO’s global perspective, the pandemic is a single, accelerated outbreak, with global figures doubling in the past six weeks.
The United States, for example, sometimes does not revel in a wave at the moment, according to this analysis, because the first wave never stopped. “The virus simply spreads to new populations or reappears in situations that let their guard down too soon,” the Guardian reports. “WHO is looking for global numbers and continues to rise. So, as a pandemic, we’re on the first wave.”
The organization says the Covid-19 pandemic is the world’s ultimate fitness emergency it has ever declared. There have been five fitness emergencies worldwide: two outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, polio and swine flu, the BBC reports.
Worldwide, more than one million Cases of Covid-19 have been reported since January and more than 650,000 deaths.
I am a freelance journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a determined traveller founded on the world’s only Grand Duchy. I’m writing a column on European affairs
I am a freelance journalist from Colombo-Luxembourg, a determined traveller founded on the world’s only Grand Duchy. I am writing a column on European affairs for the editorial page of El Tiempo, Colombia’s leading newspaper. I have been a Newsweek columnist and have written for, among others, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Toronto Globe-Mail.