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Spotlight: European Nations Tighten Anti-Virus Measures As France, Germany See Record Number of Daily Spike

Several European countries tightened anti-virus measures as Germany and France saw record daily increases in COVID-19 cases, while other countries like Italy, Denmark, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary also reported new records; measures include curfews and limits on social gatherings to control the spread of the virus.

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Spotlight: European Nations Tighten Anti-Virus Measures As France, Germany See Record Number of Daily Spike

Several European countries tightened anti-virus measures as Germany and France saw record daily increases in COVID-19 cases, while other countries like Italy, Denmark, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary also reported new records; measures include curfews and limits on social gatherings to control the spread of the virus.

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Spotlight: European nations tighten

anti-virus measures as France,


Germany see record number of daily
spike

Amid a resurgence of new Coronavirus cases across Europe, several


countries in the continent have tightened their measures against the
pandemic to control further spreading of the disease.

While Germany and France saw their infection tallies hit new single-day
highs on Thursday, the UK, Poland, the Netherlands, Austria, Croatia and
Lithuania have all reported new daily records on Wednesday.

Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI), announced on Thursday that


COVID-19 infections in the country increased by a record 11,287 within
one day, pushing the total to 392,049. While the death toll rose to 9,905.

"The situation overall has become very serious,” RKI President Lothar
Wieler told the media. "At present, we still have a chance to slow down
the further spread of the virus."

The situation in France is also worrisome. The Public Health Agency


reported 41,661 new cases on Thursday. The overall tally now stands at
999,043.

In Italy, over 21.7 million people have been placed under curfew amid a
spike in new coronavirus infections, which numbered 13,860 on
Thursday, officials said.
Also on Thursday, Denmark, Greece, Slovenia and Hungary reported
new record daily infections in the past 24 hours.

Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa stressed that, the second wave "is
a reality in all of Europe," The country's 17 autonomous regions were
mulling curfews to prevent social mixing at night.

MORE CURFEWS

French Prime Minister Jean Castex imposed curfews starting from


Friday midnight from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. will be extended to 38 more
departments in France's mainland and an overseas territory, Polynesia.

"If we fail to stop the pandemic, we will be facing a dire situation and we
will have to envisage much tougher measures," Castex added.

The government has also ramped up testing capacity to 1.6 million tests
per week without increasing delay to give results, said Health Minister
Olivier Veran.

In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has imposed curfew from


12:30 a.m. until 5:00 a.m. and the use of face masks will be mandatory
everywhere in areas with heavy epidemiological load classified as level
3 alert and the maximum 4, as a new daily high of 882 cases was
reported.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated his stand to avoid a


national lockdown saying the current restrictions are working and that
virus reproduction number, known as the R number, is half its "natural
rate." The UK has so far reported a total of 813,451 coronavirus cases and
44,437 deaths.
Meanwhile, Ireland has been placed under a nationwide lockdown
again. All the people in the country are required to stay within 5
kilometres of home with some exception.

Irish President Michael D Higgins twitted "No one will be safe from the
virus until every one of us is," and urged the public to work together to
fight the virus.

While the world is struggling to contain the pandemic, countries


including France, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United
States are racing to find a vaccine.

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