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Coronavirus in England: Numbers are increasing massively - EU country reacts with a strict catalog of penalties

2020-09-30T15:44:46.197Z


The corona virus is keeping Europe in suspense: The number of infections is also rising rapidly in England. That's why the government is imposing heavy penalties on quarantine violations. The British are now accusing Johnson of "tyranny".


The corona virus is keeping Europe in suspense: The number of infections is also rising rapidly in England.

That's why the government is imposing heavy penalties on quarantine violations.

The British are now accusing Johnson of "tyranny".

  • To date, the

    UK

    has

    the most deaths across Europe to mourn the coronavirus pandemic *.

  • In view of the drastically increasing number of infections, Prime Minister Boris Johnson fears “the second wave”.

  • That is why the government is now taking tough action: a strict catalog of fines has been in place since Sunday.

London - "The best way to fight this virus is by everyone sticking to the rules and isolating themselves if there is any risk of

transmitting

the

coronavirus

,"

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

said

a week ago.

At the same time, he advocated the

introduction of large fines

to reinforce the importance of the protective rules.

Otherwise,

Great Britain

will soon be confronted with a second corona wave *: After the number of

infections

tended to decline in

the summer,

as in many places in

Europe

, they are now increasing rapidly again in several regions every day.

With

42,000 people

who have died as a

result of the

coronavirus

in the

United Kingdom

since March

, the country has the most

death toll in Europe

.

Now, towards autumn, the number of infections * is rising drastically again, so that the

English government

was forced to introduce high fines for

violating the quarantine rules

.

Not only companies have to pay for misconduct - parents are now also prosecuted for their children.

Great Britain: Corona infection numbers are increasing - government takes tough action

The fines are hefty, ranging from

£ 1,000 to £ 10,000

.

Converted this is between 1100 and 11,000 euros.

Anyone who

violates

quarantine requirements

, such as the

isolation

requirement

,

after a

positive corona test

or a request from the health authorities

, will pay at least 1,000 pounds in the future.

"Inconsiderate" behavior can be four times as much and "if it is repeated" ten times as much, with a

maximum fine of £ 10,000

.

The

Johnson administration

shared the

news in a

video

on

Twitter

:

From 28 September people will be required by law to self-isolate, those breaking the rules face fines starting at £ 1,000, increasing up to £ 10,000.



A £ 500 Test & Trace Support payment will be available for those on lower incomes who can't work from home.https: //t.co/bNwkeYdWVf pic.twitter.com/0V9sEojjsI

- UK Prime Minister (@ 10DowningStreet) September 20, 2020

Also in the

food court

which engages

government in Britain

again by hard: restaurants and pubs have to close until further notice by 22 AM.

Operators face

fines

of over

£ 1,500

if one of their visitors dances or music is played at a volume above 85 decibels.

The reason: The guests would then have to shout out loud, which

massively increases

the

risk of infection

.

The aforementioned

maximum fine

must also be

paid by

entrepreneurs

who

threaten

their employees with

dismissal

if they comply with the

quarantine

obligation.

Low-wage earners

who have to

stay at home

due to

infection protection

and cannot work from there should, however,

receive a one-off payment of the equivalent of 550 euros

as

compensation

.

Protesters accuse Johnson government of "draconian" corona penalties

In England, the new regulations came into force on Sunday -

Johnson

may want to

extend

them

to the whole of

Great Britain

, including

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

.

Since Sunday the police and so-called

"Covid Marshalls" have

the authority of the state to review the new regulations - in the worst case even under "appropriate force", according to the

government

.

Many British found all of this disproportionate and took to the streets last Saturday after the government had issued new contact restrictions.

+

At a rally against the Johnson government's new corona measures on September 26, there were violent clashes between the demonstrators and the police in London.

© Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire / dpa / Picture Alliance

At a

demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square

, the majority of the hundreds of participants neither wore a

mask

, nor did they adhere to distance and hygiene rules.

Many demonstrated explicitly against the

"tyranny" of Johnson

, as well as this "draconian catalog of fines" and

"surveillance state".

When the police

wanted to break up

the

anti-coronavirus demonstration in the

evening, some clashes between the participants of the event and the officials ended bloody.

Video: Heading Britain for a second lockdown - Johnson comments:

Corona measures and Brexit: The Prime Minister's popularity is declining in England

As the

Bild reports that individual

measures of the new regulation

are to be approved by experts and the public, but there is still a growing

Labor group

in the

British House of Commons

who

accuse

Johnson

of

governing "by decree"

in the matter of

Corona

.

Criticism has already been heard from within its own ranks: Some

Tories

make the

same accusation

against

Johnson

.

Aside from an "authoritarian leadership style", they mainly chalk him up as "bondage" to dubious advisors like

Dominic Cummings

.

The

popularity of Prime Minister

falls not only because of

coronavirus pandemic

, but also because many

Britons

about the safety of fear of their jobs - are the

United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum

-

negotiations with the European Union * but on very thin ice.

For the first time since

Johnson

took office, the British

Labor Party

is ahead according to surveys: 42 percent of the British would, as

Bild

reports, currently

vote for

the

opposition under Keir Starmer

, only 39 percent would

vote

for the

Conservatives

again.

(cos / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

List of rubric lists: © Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire / dpa / Picture Alliance

Source: merkur

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