Covid-19: Europe further tightens its restrictions, the 10,000 dead bar crossed in Germany

Dreaded for months, the "second wave" of Covid-19 is sweeping through Europe.

Several Eastern European countries are imposing new restrictions on Saturday in the wake of the rest of the continent.

Symbolically, the cumulative number of deaths in Germany now reaches 10,000, and the number of cases of contamination in France and Spain one million.

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Europe hardens its health measures

If the "first wave" had relatively spared the countries of Eastern Europe, this is not the case for the second.

Faced with the outbreak of contaminations on its territory, the whole of

spent Saturday in the "red zone", a measure which until then only concerned large cities and their surroundings: partial closure of restaurants and educational facilities;

limitation in shops, transport and churches.

In

neighboring

, a nighttime curfew comes into effect on Saturday, until November 1.

And in the

, another neighboring country where the rate of contaminations and deaths is the worst in Europe over the last two weeks, partial containment is already in place until November 3.

The same measure also applies from Saturday in

, whose Minister of Foreign Affairs Anze Logar has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Finally, the two main cities of

, Athens and Thessaloniki, will be subject to a night curfew from Saturday, and the mask becomes mandatory inside and outside.

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More than 8 million contaminations in Europe

Across the European continent, the number of infections exceeds 8.2 million and more than 258,000 people have died from the coronavirus.

Of which some 10,003 in

, a country so far relatively spared by the pandemic but now hit hard by the epidemic rebound.

The

and

have they surpassed the one million cases of Covid-19 since the beginning of the epidemic.

In France, the situation continues to deteriorate with 42,032 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours, a new record.

Health authorities now fear a second wave "worse than the first" and have said they are considering local re-containments.

Faced with this outbreak, the government has extended the night curfew (9 p.m. to 6 a.m.), which has affected 46 million people since Friday evening for six weeks.

In Spain, the head of government Pedro Sanchez estimated Friday that the real number "exceeds three million".

Shortly before, several regions had announced further tightening of restrictions, calling on the central government to impose a nighttime curfew.

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Clashes against the curfew in Italy

In

, in Naples, the curfew decreed on Friday aroused anger and concern.

At around 11 p.m., several hundred people started it up with smoke bombs, set fire to garbage cans and threw projectiles at riot police deployed in the city center.

“If you close, you pay,” read the makeshift signs.

Protesters fear the economic consequences of the curfew and a new lockdown that the president of the Naples region, Vincenzo De Luca, has announced he wants to impose as soon as possible.

In addition to the Naples region, curfews are in force in Italy in Lazio, the Rome region, and in Lombardy, the Milan region (north).

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And also in Europe ...

In

, the authorities of the five provinces of Wallonia, the French-speaking part, decided on Friday to toughen the measures decided at the federal level and the mayors of the 19 municipalities of Brussels will decide on Saturday whether they follow the movement.

In the

, the most bereaved country in Europe with more than 44,000 dead, Wales was reconfined on Friday until November 9.

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The

, she has reconfiné its entire population for six weeks since Wednesday midnight, closing non-essential shopping.

And

announced a strengthening of its measures to restrict gatherings and the extension of the wearing of masks on Monday.

Record of contaminations in the United States

The pandemic has killed at least 1,139,406 people around the world since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP on Friday.

And a record for new contaminations, nearly 80,000 in 24 hours, was recorded by the United States.

In Latin America, restrictions will continue in

for two weeks to stem the spread of contaminations.

"We are far from having solved this problem", declared Friday Alberto Fernandez, the president of the country most fatally affected in the world with more than 8 dead per million inhabitants.

WHO concern

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm: "too many countries" in the northern hemisphere are recording an exponential increase in Covid-19 cases.

Result: hospitals and intensive care units are close or have exceeded their capacity limits, the organization warned.

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On the good news side, two experimental vaccine trials against Covid-19 will be able to resume in the United States after apparent false alarms, increasing the chances of having one or more vaccines authorized by the start of 2021 .