The mask-wearing mandatory, and the quarantines are on the rise in Europe as well as in the world in order to combat the spread of the virus.
Quarantine for travelers arriving from France to the United Kingdom, mask mandatory in the street : many countries musclent their device to counter a rally by the coronavirus, making it all the more crucial in the race for the vaccine that Russia claims to lead.
in response to the worsening of the health situation in France, the United Kingdom has imposed a Saturday, 14 days of isolation for travelers arriving in this country, but also in the netherlands and Malta, causing a rush on the Eurostars and the ferries on Friday.
The United Kingdom, however, authorizes from Saturday wedding ceremonies and reopens some locations such as beauty salons and casinos, a step in the déconfinement which had been postponed by two weeks due to the resurgence of cases.
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in Paris, the mask-wearing became compulsory in outside Saturday morning in many areas such as the Champs-Elysées or the neighborhood of the Louvre.
In Denmark, the masks will be mandatory in the public transport from 22 August, while the country is experiencing a recovery in light of the epidemic.
“Put on masks”
In Italy also, in nightclubs, in particular, the mask-wearing is mandatory. “Put the masks!”, repeat to the microphone the DJ of the “Kiki”, nightclub of Ostia, a popular seaside resort on the outskirts of Rome, with mixed success. The instructions are known: a mask is mandatory, dancing and more than a metre of the neighbour. But “all that we don’t care!”, laughs Claudio, one of the customers, his mask in the pocket.
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Elsewhere in the world, even in countries in which the management of the first epidemic wave had been hailed are affected by the return of the virus. New Zealand has extended Friday, the containment of Auckland. South Korea has tightened Saturday on the measures of social restrictions in Seoul. And meetings of professional sports will once again be played behind closed doors.
on the other hand, Algeria has begun on Saturday to open up its mosques and places of relaxation such as coffee shops, restaurants, parks and beaches, after five months of confinement.
Colombia, and Peru reconfinent
The South America and the Caribbean remain the most affected region, with six million reported cases, over 21 million people in the entire world, according to the last count of the AFP on Saturday. Brazil is the country most hard hit region, with over 3.3 million cases and 107,000 deaths. In Rio de Janeiro, the statue of Christ the Redeemer, on the famous hill of the Corcovado mountain, has been reopened to the public.
On the continent, the measures of reconfinement arouse the anger of the traders, as in Colombia. In Bogota, they showed on Saturday, dressed in black, holding placards “the closure is another way to die”. In Peru, more than 22,000 police and military personnel were patrolling from Sunday to Lima to enforce the curfew, introduced in the context of the fight against the Covid-19.
The race to vaccines continues
a Few days after the announcement by Vladimir Putin that a first vaccine is “effective enough” had been developed in Russia (and tested on the own daughter of the president of russia), Moscow announced to have produced the first doses. The “Sputnik V”, however, is perceived with scepticism by the rest of the world, the final testing phase, having started that this week.
obtaining a vaccine remains one of the main hopes of the planet to get rid of the cuts put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19, which has claimed more than 760,000 lives throughout the world.
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In the race for vaccines, the United States (with over 5.3 million cases and nearly 170,000 dead according to the last balance-sheet of the university John Hopkins university) are not in rest, with clinical trials of experimental vaccines, anti-Covid in Florida in particular. “I want to help and contribute to write the History,” says Sandra Rodriguez, a teacher, 63-year-old interviewed in a clinic near Miami.
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