US President Donald Trump questioned Europe's handling of the corona virus shortly before the US election.
He considers the lockdown in Germany to be useless.
The "second wave" in the coronavirus pandemic has arrived - and is affecting the whole world.
The countries in Europe react and impose contact restrictions and (partial) lockdowns.
US President Donald Trump * is
meanwhile at an election campaign event about the Corona measures in Germany and Europe.
Newton -
Germany
has
gotten
through the
Corona crisis
relatively well
: since it began,
532,930 people
in Germany have been shown to have been
infected
with the virus and
10,453 people
are said to have
died
in connection with
Covid 19
.
In view of the rapidly increasing number of cases - the RKI
reported over
14,000 newly infected people
on Sunday
- the federal government was forced to take stricter measures to contain the
coronavirus pandemic
again on Wednesday
.
In a so-called
“Lockdown Light”
,
restaurants, bars and fitness studios
, among other things
, will have to
close
from Monday (November 2nd),
but
schools and kindergartens
should remain open.
Many
EU countries
are now following suit.
While in
France
and
Spain,
for example, stricter contact restrictions have been in effect for a little longer,
Italy, Austria
and
Great Britain have
now
announced that they will
issue
a
partial lockdown
in the coming days
.
The
lockdown in the spring has proven its worth
especially in
Germany
, so that the
SPD politician Karl Lauterbach
has long been pleading for a renewed shutdown of public life in order to get the numbers under control and stop the exponential growth of infections.
Donald Trump criticizes Europe: Corona measures and lockdown useless
In the
US
, the
election campaign * is
now in the final sprint.
To stay in office,
Donald Trump
, who recently
infected
himself with the
corona
virus, is using tough means.
Regardless of the
Corona crisis *
in his own country, shortly before the presidential election on Tuesday *, he questioned the effectiveness of the restrictions and Europe's handling of the virus in general - and also dealt polemically against Germany again.
"The skyrocketing cases in Europe have shown that draconian
lockdown
- that's it, draconian - the virus does not stop," said the
Republicans
on Saturday at a
campaign event in Newton
in
Pennsylvania *
.
Italy was in lockdown - and now everything is starting all over again.
Without naming the sources for his claims, Trump also said the
excess mortality rate in the US is significantly lower than in Europe
.
What exactly he means by this remains unclear, because excess mortality indicates how many more people have died in a certain period than in a comparable previous period.
Video: Trump promises: "We will never lockdown again"
Donald Trump: "Everyone thought Germany is doing well, well, well, well"
“And Europe did a good job, it's a very brutal thing.
Everyone thought
Germany is doing well, well, well, well
.
But they're not doing well, ”Trump continued.
“You can see what's going on over there, France again, Spain, Italy.
We're fine.
We just don't get any recognition for it, ”the incumbent
US President
told his fans in Newton.
The current address follows a pattern, Trump
has been downplaying
the dangers of the
corona virus
for months.
Even after his infection
with the virus, he is still resisting stricter preventive measures in the US, while medical care
groans
among the
thousands infected
.
With around
330 million inhabitants
, the
USA was
hit hard by the Corona crisis *.
Every day, new sad records are set here in terms of
deaths and newly infected people
within 24 hours -
according to the
Johns Hopkins University
, the nation
already has more than 230,000 fatalities
in the
pandemic
.
In relation to this:
there are currently around
448 million people
in the
European Union
.
The European alliance
Euromomo
currently assumes around 223,000 people who have died in connection with the coronavirus in all
EU countries
who provide it with data.
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