The Netherlands is set to impose the first Covid-19 lockdown in Western Europe since the summer of Friday, according to several reports, from a series of new restrictions across the continent this week as governments struggle to involve record coronavirus cases.
Dutch Acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte is expected to announce the partial shutdown on Friday night, media reports, urging others to paint from home and ordering non-essential shops, bars and restaurants to close at 7 p. m. for at least 3 weeks from Saturday.
Denmark also reintroduced its Covid-19 fitness pass on Friday, showing the backlog in cases (the program was first stopped in early September) that will be needed to enter certain opportunities or occasions and shows evidence of vaccination, coronavirus recovery, or a recent negative test.
On Friday, Norway announced plans to offer a third dose of the vaccine to all adults (lately only for the elderly) and will give local governments the option to use virtual “corona passes” for infections while keeping businesses open. .
Cases in the Czech Republic, which are reaching record levels, prompted the government to announce plans to monitor all schoolchildren on Friday, while some 1. 4 million schoolchildren will be checked in two waves on November 22 and 29.
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said a lockdown in the country is “probably inevitable” given the record number of Covid-19 infections and hospitals suffering, but the lockdown will not be implemented uniformly, according to the information, and only the unvaccinated will be confined to Despite an abundant source of vaccines, Austria has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe.
A few weeks ago, the World Health Organization warned that Europe was “once again at the epicenter” of the pandemic. Cases and deaths have piled up although they have largely declined around the world. possibly due to the very low vaccination rates in Eastern Europe (about a quarter of Romanians have been fully vaccinated) and the fact that the WHO European region is actually expanding into Central Asia, even in the rich countries of Western Europe. An unprecedented increase in infections. The number of cases in Germany and the Netherlands, for example, is at its highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. Experts and officials warn that it is undoubtedly the unvaccinated who are this new wave, calling on governments to redouble their efforts to combat widespread doubts about vaccines.
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