Faced, like many other countries, with a resurgence of the Covid-19, France and Germany will tighten their restrictions, with in particular a ban on large gatherings in Germany and the wearing of compulsory masks throughout Paris.
A draft agreement between regions and the German government specifies that the authorities will increase the fines for non-wearing of the mask, strengthen controls to ensure that the quarantine periods are respected and impose fines if not. is not the case. Even if the spread of the virus in the country is “currently still significantly lower than the peak reached in March and April”, Berlin points to the fact that “in recent weeks, the number of infections has increased again”.
Germany records around 1,500 new cases daily, the highest since the end of April. The record is at 6,000 at the beginning of April. “Collective housing, events, celebrations and mobility linked to holidays are particularly conducive to the spread of the virus”, according to the draft agreement, which recalls that “this increase in the summer months is to be taken particularly seriously “. These measures are a blow to the country’s football clubs, which hoped to be able to start partially returning their fans to the stadiums with the new season about to start.
In the French capital, it is now necessary to go out masked everywhere, while the obligation was for the moment limited to a few streets, announced Thursday morning the Prime Minister Jean Castex. Faced with a pandemic which “regains ground”, the wearing of the mask could be generalized in other large agglomerations of the 21 French departments now placed in red zone, added Mr. Castex.
Wearing a mask is compulsory on the streets in Spain, Paris and Brussels, as well as in Turkish and Polish cities and some Greek islands. Paris was added Wednesday by Belgium to its list of European destinations that are no longer authorized, unless they submit to the return to screening for the coronavirus and a period of isolation.
This recent increase in the number of infected people is not recorded in Europe: in Rwanda, one of the first African countries to impose strict containment on March 22, an increase in the number of cases has led the government to extend the length of the curfew and ban travel to and out of the western region of Rusizi. “Due to the increase in the number of coronavirus cases (in the capital) Kigali, public transport between Kigali and other regions has also been banned,” the government said.
In South Korea, the National Assembly was closed on Thursday after a photojournalist who was covering a meeting of the ruling Democratic Party (center-left) on Wednesday tested positive. Ten officials of this party, including its president and its parliamentary leader have placed themselves in solitary confinement and will undergo screening tests.
The pandemic has killed at least 826,512 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the onset of the disease at the end of December, according to a report drawn up Thursday at 11:00 GMT. More than 24,229,710 cases of infection have been officially diagnosed since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 15,578,100 are now considered cured.
The United States are the most affected country both in number of deaths and cases, with 179,743 deaths for 5,823,685 cases identified, according to the count of Johns Hopkins University.
After the United States, the countries most affected are the Brazil with 117,665 deaths for 3,717,156 cases, the Mexico with 62,076 deaths (573,888 cases), PInde with 60,472 deaths (3,310,234 cases), and the United Kingdom with 41,449 deaths (328,846 cases).
In Argentine, a record of 10,000 new cases detected in 24 hours was reached Wednesday in the country, which has nearly 8,000 deaths.
According to a Unicef report published on Wednesday, the pandemic and the closure of schools have meant that at least a third of students worldwide, or 463 million children, have been unable to benefit from education, to be able to do it virtually.
Meanwhile, studies on Covid-19 continue. One of them, published Wednesday, concludes that the immune response of women could be stronger than that of men, more affected by severe forms.
In addition, according to another study by the British Ministry of Defense, a product against mosquitoes, the active substance of which comes from eucalyptus, has been shown to be effective in neutralizing the new coronavirus.
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