All French citizens will receive the vaccine anti-Covid, which will not be obligatory, between April and June 2021. The president Emmanuel Macron announced at a press conference the vaccination campaign aimed at the whole population next spring, while the treatment will be available earlier for more people vulnerable.
Meanwhile in Belgium, given the decline in contagion and gods hospitalizations, reopen the shops of goods deemed non-essential but the government fears that the reopening could lead to massive gatherings in shopping centers and in the most popular streets of the nation. During the weekend, the light festivals ahead of the Christmas they have already caused crowds in several cities – as in Italy -, triggering the reaction of the virology who warned of the dangers of an early reopening. Fears that also spill over celebrations religious: for this reason the government has decided that there will be no mass in church until January 15, including that of Christmas. Strict rules unlike what is established in France, where is the State Council ordered the government to review its decree limiting the number of faithful authorized to participate in religious ceremonies to 30 people.
Looking instead atAustria, the government is preparing, even before Christmas, a crackdown on travel abroad: those returning from a country with an incidence of over 100 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in the last 7 days will have to stay ten days in quarantine, while until now it was enough to present a negative Covid test no older than 72 hours. To shorten the insulation, the swab can be done after 5 days. For the quarantine are not expected work permits, i.e. an employee will have to take vacation.
In Germany, which in the last 24 hours has recorded 13,604 cases and 388 victims, the city of Nuremberg enter in lockdown rigid at least until December 20 causes a severe increase in contagion. Meanwhile the Russia records a new sad record with 569 deaths in 24 hours which bring the number of victims to 40,464 since the beginning of the emergency. The official data reported by the agency Tass they also speak of 26,402 new cases with the total reaching 2,322,056.
Belgium – According to the news measures, the shopping must be done alone or with a minor or a dependent. The time of stay in a shop it is limited to half an hour. Restaurants and bars remain closed. The Belgium, which houses the headquarters of theEuropean Union, was one of the most affected countries in Europe during the pandemic. More than 16,500 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported during two peaks in the spring and fall. The experts they do know they wear the mask and respecting social distancing will be essential to contain the spread of the virus when it is shopping will return to normal. Despite the intense ones infections and the deaths that the country has witnessed, many still gather in groups and many do not wear masks.
France – There were 8,083 new cases of positivity. The 363 deaths since yesterday, which added to the 412 in the last 4 days in retirement homes and institutions for the disabled, bring the total number of victims since the beginning of the pandemic to 53,506. The decline in resuscitation hospitalizations continues, down to 3,605 tonight, and those of patients with Covid-19 in hospital, which are currently 27,639. The swab positivity rate is 10.8%.
Austria – Austria has started its mass test campaign from the town of Annaberg-Lungoetz, near Salzburg, before the program is rolled out nationwide at the end of this week. The government ordered 10 million rapid tests, which should cover a significant proportion of the approximately 9 million Austrians in two stages. The first phase will start on Friday in Vienna and in the provinces of Tirolo and of Vorarlberg. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz invited the population to voluntarily join the test program, arguing that the assessment of cases of coronavirus infection will allow the relaxation of the lockdown. The Austrian test campaign follows, in its modalities, similar campaigns already carried out in Slovakia.
Germany – Nuremberg enter in lockdown with immediate effect. There measure, in effect at least until December 20, was announced today by the mayor Marcus Koenig, in the face of an out-of-control growth in infections of coronavirus. The 500,000 residents of the city, the second of the Bavaria, will be able to leave the house only for valid reasons. The use of the mask in public the sale of alcohol in the city center. THE measures, which also include a rotation in face-to-face school lessons, are announced after the contagion rate in the city has reached 306.7 infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a seven-day period. Similar provisions of lockdown have been taken or will also be taken Passau, Rain e Freyung-Grafenau, other Bavarian municipalities with similar levels of contagion. From the beginning of November bars and restaurants are closed throughout Germany, where a limit to meetings of up to two nuclei family members. More restrictive measures are in place in most localities hit. In Thuine, in the part in north-western Germany, not far from the Dutch border, 76 nuns from a Franciscan convent tested positive. Another 85 religious women received negative test results.
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