Europe has not yet been approved for use in most countries except the UK, but the number of patients is increasing. With a crowded Christmas season and the end of the year, Germany forced all stores across the country to close except for essential industries.
Reporter Kim Young-ah will tell the situation in Europe.
The German government decided to implement the highest level of blockade nationwide from the day after tomorrow (16th).
Accordingly, all stores must be closed by January 10 of next year, except for essential industries such as supermarkets, pharmacies, and banks.
Both schools and kindergartens are also closed in principle.
Germany, where the damage was relatively small, had only been partially blocked, except for bars and restaurants, where general stores and schools were kept open.
However, on the 11th, the number of new confirmed cases was approaching 30,000, the largest number since the corona crisis.
[메르켈/독일 총리 : 접촉을 70~75% 정도는 줄여야 하는데 (부분 봉쇄로는) 40%까지밖에 줄일 수 없었습니다.]
Most European countries have already mobilized all available countermeasures, but the spread has not stopped.
In Italy, where the death toll exceeds 65,000, as well as the UK and France, there are still nearly 20,000 new cases every day.
Russia, which has the highest cumulative number of confirmed cases in Europe, has nearly 30,000 new cases every day.
As Christmas and New Year holidays, where there are many gatherings in cold weather favorable to the survival of the virus, overlap, the concerns of European countries are getting deeper.
(Video editing: Jang Hyun-ki)
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