France and Germany made the decision thursday to close certain sectors of their economies as a component of accelerating efforts around the world to resurface a coronavirus and further restrict the monetary consequences.
Hundreds of thousands of new infections have increased the number of known global instances to more than 44. 5 million with nearly 1. 2 million deaths, as the disease continues to spread fatally worldwide.
India, one of the world’s worst-affected countries, has surpassed 8 million cases, fearing worse days before the Diwali festival.
After significantly quiet summer seasons, France and Germany are now taking ambitious steps to end social life in the face of growing infections across the continent.
Starting Friday, France, whose death toll on Thursday exceeded 36,000 after 250 more deaths since Wednesday, will ban others from leaving their homes without permission, recalling the drastic household maintenance measures observed around the world in early spring.
Bars and restaurants will also be closed until at least December and regions will be limited, President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised clash on Wednesday.
“As in Europe, we are overcome by a wave of moments that will probably be more complicated and more fatal than the first,” Macron said, while en enssured that the blockade would be less severe.
Factories and structure sites will remain open, as will nurseries and schools; young people up to six years of age must wear masks.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered a series of lighter closures from Monday, November 2 to the end of the month.
Germans won’t be confined to their homes, but bars, cafes and restaurants will have to close, as well as theaters, operas and cinemas.
In Spain, parliament on Thursday approved the six-month extension of the state of emergency that government President Pedro Sánchez’s leftist declared on Sunday during the first two weeks.
Spain’s 17 regional governments can impose measures to limit people’s mobility, such as nighttime curfews and end of borders.
The Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Thursday declared a “red zone” at the close of many activities.
– Britain in a ‘bad place’ –
The Swedish government now recommends that citizens of the capital Stockholm, as well as those from two southern regions, restrict contact with others and confined spaces, as the country has recorded an official record of 3,254 new cases in one day.
EU leaders on Thursday held a video summit on the crisis, according to EUROPEAN sources, the first in a series of calls for coordination across the continent.
The European Central Bank promised its pandemic recovery in December.
The economic recovery is “losing momentum than expected” after the partial uptick observed this summer, ECB President Christine Lagarde said after a virtual 25-member Governing Council assembly.
Despite a build-up of cases and deaths, the UK has promised to persist in its local national blocking technique.
Community secretary Robert Jenrick stated that statistics showed Britain in a “bad situation,” with nearly 25,000 new cases recorded Wednesday.
But he said ministers still believed that targeted action was “the most productive path forward” given variable rates of infection.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not aim to introduce a radical blockade, even when the country recorded a record with reports of ambulance queues in hospitals and shortages.
Also on Thursday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune underwent medical tests at a German hospital and is in solid condition, he said, days after suspected cases of coronavirus were reported among 74-year-old assistants.
– ‘It’s time to make a will’ –
The new restrictions are also shaking life in the world.
Mandatory masks and some curfews were ordered in Pakistani cities, while Tunisia said Thursday that it imposed a national curfew in the middle of the night, closed schools and banned interregional travel.
The health government warns Africa that time is running out to prepare for its “second wave. “
Over the next month, there has been an average increase of six% in weekly instances of Covid-19 across the continent, according to the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Mexico, which has the fourth highest number of coronavirus deaths with more than 90,000, the pandemic has forced others to write wills that many would differ differently.
In other parts of Latin America, Argentina has claimed 30,000 lives, yet Mexico and Mexico are behind Brazil’s 160,000 deaths.
– Pandemic Halloween –
The United States still has the highest number of deaths and infections in the world, and, like Europe, it is grapping with a new spike with tens of thousands of new cases as fears of hospitals rising overwhelmed.
But there were symptoms on the economic front, with the United States recording its most powerful recovery recorded with an annualized expansion rate of 33. 1% in the third quarter, plus a drop in unemployment benefit programs.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been in the process ofBut it’s not the first time They warned that holidays can be a maximum risk, while several states have discouraged young people from cheating or treating.
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