Promachonas: Countries around the world are re-blocking and implementing new fitness checks at their borders in an effort to stem the resurgence of the coronavirus before it becomes even more uncontrollable.
As of Wednesday, all travelers who arrived in Greece from a land border with Bulgaria were to bring negative coronavirus verification effects issued in the last 72 hours and translated into English. The new rules, which adhere to an accumulation in cases related to COVID-19 tourism, triggered a rapid drop in arrivals in recent days.
Residents of Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, were warned Wednesday to comply with blocking regulations or face stricter restrictions. Melbourne’s five million citizens and the semi-rural landscape component of the city are a week after a new six-week lockdown to involve a new epidemic there.
“The days of warnings, the recess time, are over,” Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews said. “Where we are is in a very fatal position.”
Progress is accompanied by more than thirteen million cases of international coronavirus and more than 578,000 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally.
Actual numbers are thought to be much higher for several reasons, adding limited evidence.
In Serbia, which has been hit hard by a spike in infections and anti-government protests, a government crisis team expanded a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people from Belgrade to encompass the entire country. Masks were also made mandatory in public spaces where there is no opportunity for 1.5 meters of distancing, such as in lines to enter shops and bus stations.
The renewal of the restrictions took effect in Hong Kong on Wednesday, with public meetings limited to 4 people, restaurants limited to takeaway after 6 p.m. and a week-to-week closing for gyms, karaoke bars and some businesses. The mask was imposed on public shipping for the first time, with fines for non-compliance.
After a surge in daily infections beginning last month, Israel moved last week to reimpose restrictions, closing events spaces, live show venues, bars and clubs. It has imposed lockdowns on areas with high infection rates, which in some cases sparked protests from residents.
Officials warn that if case numbers don’t come down in the coming days, Israel will have no choice but to lock the entire country down again, as it did in the spring.
“I don’t see what other equipment we have outside a lockdown,” Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told Israeli news site Ynet. “Unless there’s a miracle.”
South Africa, Africa’s top-evolving country, already has symptoms of being hit by the pandemic, a worrying possibility for the rest of the continent of 1.3 billion people.
The ban on the sale of alcohol and the evening curfew were again imposed this week on the volume of traumatized patients in hospitals suffering to cope with an influx of COVID-19 patients.
Alcohol-related emergencies in hospitals fell by almost 60% when South Africa banned the sale of alcohol in April and May. When the restriction was lifted in June, hospitals saw a rapid return to the last degrees of trauma cases, especially on weekends, according to health minister Zwelini Mkhize’s statistics.
A result of greater economic suffering in a country that already has an unemployment rate of more than 30%.
“This goes back to the alcohol ban is wreaking havoc in the restaurant industry and is resulting in job losses,” said Gerald Elliot, owner of a popular Johannesburg restaurant, Ba Pita, which closed due to restrictions. a loss of 28 jobs. “You can take a look down our street and see several places to eat that are closed. They seem to be closed forever.”
Authorities in northeastern Catalonia in Spain have made additional attempts to stop the spread of new coronavirus outbreaks, while fitness experts have warned that more and more contacts are needed.
Since Tuesday, 160,000 citizens of the city of Lleida and the surrounding domain have been excluded from their homes unless they are well justified. The domain is closed, with police checkpoints outdoors in each municipality. Please note that bars and restaurants are only open for takeaway or delivery.
In Hospitalet de Llobregat, a densely populated city on the outskirts of the regional capital, Barcelona, dozens of others covered the spot in a local gym on Tuesday to detect the virus, while infections increased from a few dozen to more than two hundred. In just over 3 days.
Starting Wednesday, 3 neighborhoods face more restrictions, adding limits to the number of consumers in retail stores and restaurants, while the government urges others not to socialize.
The English authorities in the city of Blackburn have also imposed new restrictions on social mixes amid what they describe as a “rising tide” of new cases of coronavirus.
Director of Public Health Dominic Harrison said that if the number of infections did not decrease until July 27, the government would begin imposing blocking measures, such as final retail outlets and other businesses.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Wednesday that the spread of infections in the Japanese capital had reached equivalent to “alarming” degrees and called on citizens and businessmen to take preventive measures.
However, even when new restrictions are imposed, steps have been taken to repair the sense of normality.
On Tuesday night, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko announced the reopening of the border with Russia and the resumption of shipment between the two countries “in the coming days.”
Travellers arriving in Russia from Wednesday were required to provide the effects of coronavirus tests at the border or get tested for the virus within 3 days of their arrival in the country. These measures update a mandatory two-week self-isolation for those arriving in Russia.
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