Italian regions lock down and Paris tightens rules as Europe smashes virus records

In neighboring France, Paris additionally introduced stricter measures because the nation reported a document 58,046 new circumstances Thursday, based on the French well being company. The nation has Europe’s highest case quantity, at 1.6 million infections.

From Friday, meals supply, takeout and alcohol gross sales are banned in Paris between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., police stated.

“The second wave is already upon us, and it’s brutal,” French well being minister Olivier Véran informed a information convention Thursday. If the virus retains spreading at this charge, he stated “the second wave may very well be worse and longer” than the primary, and will take “till mid-December” to stabilize.

Véran urged individuals to respect the nationwide lockdown, or face “a excessive danger of saturation” of hospitals by mid-November.

And in Germany, authorities on Thursday registered greater than 20,000 Covid-19 circumstances in a single day for the primary time. The rise comes amid renewed efforts to curb the unfold of the virus that on Thursday noticed 21,506 new infections throughout Germany, a rise of greater than 1,600 in comparison with the day prior to this.

Contemporary lockdowns as case spike

Greece will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown from Saturday after reporting virtually 10,000 new circumstances in 5 days, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis introduced Thursday.

Individuals might want to textual content the authorities earlier than leaving house and excessive colleges will shut.

Denmark additionally introduced new restrictions in seven municipalities after scientists recognized a mutated pressure of the coronavirus linked to the mink inhabitants. In keeping with the federal government, the mutated type of the virus has been handed again to people from the small mammals.

All mink within the nation will likely be killed due to the considerations over a mutation of the virus, the nation’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated Wednesday.

Danish cafes and pubs will shut from Saturday, together with indoor sports activities venues, cultural facilities and public transport, and other people ought to keep away from journey exterior their space.

In the meantime, UK International Secretary Dominic Raab and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven are each in self-quarantine after potential coronavirus publicity, it emerged Thursday.

A UK authorities adviser informed CNN that Raab was “knowledgeable that a person with whom he has been in current shut contact with has examined optimistic,” as England entered a month-long second nationwide lockdown.

Löfven stated an individual in his neighborhood got here in touch with somebody with Covid-19 however had examined unfavourable.

“The event goes within the improper course shortly. Extra are contaminated. Extra persons are dying,” Löfven wrote on Fb.

Earlier this week Sweden introduced it would tighten restrictions in three extra areas, together with limiting gatherings in bars and eating places to eight individuals.

Austria and Poland additionally each reported document case rises Thursday as Austria entered its second nationwide lockdown this week, which incorporates an eight p.m. to six a.m. curfew and the closure of leisure services.

Norway, which has certainly one of Europe’s lowest an infection charges, has seen a “sharp rise” in circumstances, based on the Norwegian Institute of Public Well being.

Norwegians had been urged to “keep at house as a lot as doable” from Saturday as countrywide restrictions had been introduced, together with bars and eating places closing at midnight and extra distant studying.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg warned of a “very severe” scenario, including, “we should act now to keep away from a brand new shutdown as in March.”

Bent Høie, the Norwegian well being minister, stated that if present traits proceed “it would create main challenges for our well being service, as we see taking place in nation after nation in Europe.”