Idafe Martin
10/20/2020 11:33 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 10/20/2020 11:33 AM
With frightening curves, which climb again exponentially, and that nobody knows how to tame again, the European Commission last Wednesday asked the 27 governments of the bloc to take
all the necessary measures
to avoid having to return to the confinements of March and April.
Those closures caused the
worst
economic
damage
since the world wars, with product falls in the second quarter of more than 10% in almost all of Europe.
The European Union, according to the latest forecasts and as long as it does not return to confinements, could see its economy fall this year by more than 8%.
Its worst year so far was 2009, when the bloc's GDP lost 2.9%.
All of Europe is already tightening restrictions.
Only Ireland and the British region of Wales announced the return to strict confinement (people at home except for emergencies and everything closed for two weeks in the Welsh case and for six in the Irish case, although keeping
the schools open
).
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Coronavirus in Europe
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Perimeter closures
In other countries, there are cities and regions experimenting with
perimeter closures
: you do not enter or leave a neighborhood, a city or a region.
The last one to approve this system was the Spanish from Navarre.
The measures vary but many have
points in common
: limiting the opening hours of bars, cafes and restaurants or in cities and regions with the highest incidence of infections, including
curfews at
night to avoid nightlife.
Germany "recommends"
Angela Merkel asked Germans over the weekend to stay home as long as they can and only go out for their essential occupations, such as working, studying or buying food.
It is
a recommendation
that the head of the German government hopes will work to avoid having to make it an obligation.
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Germany is banned at least until the end of the year any gathering of people, such as festivals, concerts, sporting events.
Anyone who arrives at a German airport from a country considered to be at risk is subjected to
a mandatory test
and, whatever the result of the test, when a person enters Germany, with few exceptions, they have to keep
14 days of quarantine.
Since the beginning of October there are
fines
(the first time 50 euros) for anyone who does not wear a chinstrap (or puts it on badly) in any place where its use is mandatory.
In addition, in the regions with the highest incidence of the virus, any gathering of more than 50 people and 25 people in the case of private meetings is prohibited.
Berlin bars close at 23:00 and only two households and five people at most are allowed.
Bars with marquees, the best protection against covid in Berlin.
Photo: AFP
France: goodbye to the night
With an incidence of the virus that in recent days even exceeded Spain, the French government last week approved a curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in many of its main cities, including Paris, Marseille, Lyon , Bordeaux or Lille.
Some 22 million French people
cannot leave the
house
at night
, a measure that in principle will last four weeks although President Emmanuel Macron has already said it could be extended up to six weeks.
The bars and restaurants in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne have been closed since October 10.
Private events such as weddings or birthdays can only be held with a maximum of 10 people, a measure that applies throughout France.
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The French can invite friends to their home, but that little gathering cannot be of more than six people.
The
masks are compulsory
throughout France indoors and in open places in Paris, Lille, Lyon, Nice and dozens of other cities of all sizes.
Spain: trapped in Madrid
The Spanish government forced the declaration of a state of alarm for the Madrid region after the regional government went against the current, to the point of wanting to
open nightclubs
, giving them restaurant licenses.
No one can leave the Madrid region
without justification
and the freedom to move within the region is not absolute.
Madrid has not closed restaurants and bars but is keeping them at 50% capacity, as stores must also do.
At 23:00
everyone must close
.
Friends and family gatherings are limited to a maximum of six people.
The Madrid Emergency Service attends an 86-year-old woman in the middle of the Covid pandemic.
Photo: Reuters
Catalonia did close bars and restaurants at least until the end of October and made the use of chinstraps mandatory
from the age of six
in any closed place and on public transport.
Italy: state of alarm
In addition to mandatory masks indoors and outdoors throughout the country - even in schools for those over six years old every time children leave their class - Italians have been in a state of alarm since March.
Last week, the opening hours of bars and restaurants began to be limited again and private parties, such as weddings, are limited to a maximum of 30 people.
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Netherlands: everything changed
The Dutch went through March and April with fewer restrictions than their neighbors, never closing schools and shops and hardly wearing chinstraps.
That changed
.
Last week all the bars, cafes, restaurants and iconic coffee shops in Amsterdam were closed.
You can only sell alcohol until 20:00 and it is forbidden, as in Belgium, to drink alcohol in public.
The government
recommends teleworking
and at home the Dutch can only invite a maximum of three people.
Chinstraps are mandatory indoors.
The amateur sport stopped, except for minors.
Belgium: "tsunami" of cases
Belgium is the second European country with the highest incidence of the virus, only behind the Czech Republic.
The Belgian government announced on Friday that from Monday the country is in a curfew from midnight to 05:00 and closed all bars, restaurants and cafes.
Teleworking
is mandatory
whenever possible.
The use of chinstraps is mandatory in most of the country.
Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said this Sunday that the country is "on the brink of a tsunami" of cases and on the verge of losing control of the pandemic.
The health system is still holding out because, after Germany, Belgium has the most powerful in proportion to its population in the entire OECD.
Belgians can only invite
one person home.
A person with covid in intensive care at a hospital in Belgium.
Photo: Reuters
168,000 dead from March to June
Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Commission, published on Monday for the first time
comparable data
on excess deaths in the 27 countries of the European Union from March to June.
The calculation is made by comparing the number of total deaths with the average for the same period of the previous four years.
This calculation ensures that between March and June 168,000 more people died in the European Union than expected, a figure that can be attributed to the covid.
The countries with the most fatalities are Spain (48,000), Italy (46,000), France (30,000), Germany and the Netherlands (10,000 each).
The most affected regions of the continent were the Italian of Bergamo (895% more than normal) and the Spanish of Segovia (634% more victims than expected).
Between March 30 and April 5 there were 36,000 additional deaths in the European Union than expected.
The other 22 countries of the European Union added 25,000 extra deaths in those four months from March to June.
96% of the 168,000 deaths in addition to normal were over 70 years old.
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