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Covid-19: reopening of museums and terraces in Portugal, London plans to reopen its shops

2021-04-06T05:49:35.545Z


UPDATE ON THE SITUATION - New measures, new reports and highlights: Le Figaro takes stock of the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.


France has closed its schools for 4 weeks, Bangladesh has confined its population for 7 days, and Chile is cloistered throughout April.

Other countries are seeing the end of the tunnel despite an active circulation of the virus in the world which has resulted in the death of more than 2.8 million people, including nearly 100,000 in France.

Read also: Covid-19: hospital pressure continues to worsen in France

  • Reopening of museums and terraces in Portugal

On Monday April 5, Portugal carefully loosened the screw: museums, colleges and café terraces reopened, more than two months after their closure, the second stage of a gradual deconfinement plan.

Gatherings will however be limited to four people per table on the terraces, while group lessons remain prohibited in sports halls, and museums will have to adapt their opening hours.

Read also: Tourism: Greece, Spain, Italy ... The race against time to save the summer

In Greece, despite still worrying figures, most stores were allowed to reopen on Monday, except department stores and shopping malls.

However, people who wish to visit the stores must make an appointment and the number of people who can be in a store at the same time is limited to 20 people.

This measure does not apply, however, to the two largest cities in the country after Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras, where the epidemic is particularly virulent.

  • British shops reopened on April 12

After several months of tight restrictions for the whole country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, encouraged by the improvement in the situation in the United Kingdom, confirmed the reopening on April 12 in England of non-essential businesses such as hairdressers , terraces of pubs or gyms.

However, to keep control over the virus, the government intends to strengthen screening, with two tests per week offered to the entire population.

A health passport is being considered for mass gatherings, such as football matches and indoor events.

Read also: United Kingdom: Boris Johnson wants a cautious reopening of the borders

Boris Johnson on the other hand refused to commit to a date for the resumption of trips abroad, banned until May 17 except for essential reasons.

  • France starts vaccine production

The reopening of shops and restaurants is not current in France, which has entered national confinement for four weeks after an Easter weekend under a bell despite a tolerance observed by the police.

Hospital pressure is still growing in the country, which welcomes more than 5,400 intensive care patients against 3,600 last month.

Read also: Vaccines: Merck boosts its production capacities in France

To win this race against the virus, the government is counting on an acceleration of the vaccination campaign, in particular by manufacturing doses.

In all, five industrial sites should be at work in the coming months to produce vaccines in France.

"

Production is due to start this week, in this case Wednesday at Delpharm, in its plant in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre

" (Eure-et-Loir, north-west of France), on behalf of the German laboratory BioNTech , partner of the American Pfizer, said Bercy.

  • US aid for vaccine delivery

For its part, the United States wants to do "

much more

" in its deliveries of anti-Covid vaccines to foreign countries and will not ask for "

favors

" in return, said the chief diplomat, Antony Blinken.

Read also: Covid-19: more than 100 million vaccinations in the United States

Joe Biden's government goal of delivering a vaccine to 90% of the population of the United States will soon be met, and Washington is considering delivering a likely surplus of vaccine to other countries further behind in their own campaign.

  • Outbreak in India

The Indian state worst affected by Covid-19, which includes the megalopolis of Bombay, has put in place new restrictions, as the country recorded more than 100,000 new cases for the first time in 24 hours.

The hope that had arisen earlier this year that the number of cases would finally decline has faded in recent weeks with a new wave that has brought the total of cases since the start of the pandemic to 12.5 million, and the number deaths to 165,000.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks above all to avoid returning to national confinement, after that of March 2020, the consequences of which had been catastrophic for the poorest.

The local authorities therefore decided on Sunday to advance the curfew from 8 p.m. to 7 p.m., to apply a lockdown on weekends, to close not only bars and restaurants, cinemas, swimming pools, places of worship and public places, but also private offices, and to prohibit any meeting of more than four people.

  • North Korea renounces the Olympics

North Korea is waiving the Tokyo Olympics this summer due to the risk of coronavirus infection, the North Korean Sports Ministry said.

At a meeting, the North Korean Olympic committee "

decided not to participate in the 32nd Olympic Games in order to protect athletes from the global health crisis caused by Covid-19

", the communication service of the ministry said. of Pyongyang Sports.

The participation of North Korea, a nuclear power isolated from the rest of the world, in the last Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, was a decisive factor in the spectacular diplomatic rapprochement that took place in 2018.

  • The small pilgrimage to Mecca only for the vaccinated

Only people vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform umrah, the small pilgrimage to Mecca, from the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which begins in mid-April this year, Saudi authorities have announced.

The Hajj ministry said in a statement that "

only people immune

" to the coronavirus would be allowed to perform umrah or prayers in the Grand Mosque of Mecca from the start of Ramadan.

This measure applies in particular to people who have received the two necessary doses of vaccine and to those who have received a single dose for at least fourteen days.

Ramadan usually brings a large influx of worshipers to Mecca from Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries.

Source: lefigaro

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