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For the “first time in months”, Europe is experiencing an increase in the number of weekly cases of Covid-19, especially in eleven countries, warned the World Health Organization (WHO), warning about the capacity of the systems to cope with this rebound.
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Believing to have tamed the pandemic, Europe had been deconfigured in recent weeks, monitoring restarts, even if it means ordering new confinements. This is what has been happening in recent days. In Germany, more than 600,000 inhabitants of two cantons were reconfigured after the appearance of an outbreak of contamination in a slaughterhouse.
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Near Naples, Italy, the army was dispatched on Thursday to secure and lock down a “red zone”, where some 50 foreign residents infected with the new coronavirus tried to escape their forced confinement, Italian media reported.
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“In eleven countries, the acceleration of transmission has led to a very significant upsurge which, if not controlled, will push healthcare systems to the brink once again in Europe”
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Faced with a rise in cases of infections, several districts on the outskirts of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, will again have to observe confinement for two weeks starting next Wednesday, announced Thursday the Prime Minister of the country, Antonio Costa. “The only effective way to control the pandemic is to keep people at home for as long as possible, always respecting social distances and hygienic standards,” Costa stressed to the press.
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WHO warns
The World Health Organization warned the continent on Thursday. “Last week, Europe saw an increase in the number of weekly cases for the first time in months,” said WHO director of the Europe branch Hans Kluge from Copenhagen. “In eleven countries, the acceleration of transmission has led to a very significant upsurge which, if not controlled, will push healthcare systems to the brink once again in Europe”, he continued. .
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Because in other countries, the deconfinement continues all the more beautiful. AT Paris for example, Eiffel Tower reopened, with few tourists still, and the Louvre will follow on July 6.
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The Greece, she, where the epidemic has killed 191 people, ensures that she has taken “a maximum” of security measures to protect tourists, according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Greek airports will again host international flights on July 1.
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And the English, for the hottest day of the year, rushed to the beaches Thursday, to the point of overwhelming local authorities who called the police into the seaside resort of Bournemouth.
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Acceleration in the United States
After a long “plateau” pandemic is spreading in a huge part of the United States and also growing in Latin America, especially in Mexico and Brazil where the daily death toll continues to climb.
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The Texas, freedom-loving and largest state in the country, started reopening on May 1, but local executive chief Governor Greg Abbott decided on Thursday not to proceed to the next stages of deconfinement due to the increase in hospitalizations. This large state reported Thursday 5,996 new cases of coronavirus, a new record. “The last thing we want to do is go back and close the shops,” said the Republican.
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It is however the new fear of many American officials of a vast fringe covering the South and the West, who observe for a few weeks their hospitals fill with patients of Covid-19 and wonder if it is not necessary, minimum, make it compulsory to wear masks in public. Nevada has just decreed it for all closed public spaces, and therefore in Las Vegas casinos, as of Friday.
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