Second Wave Of Covid 19 – Burning Issues – Free PDF Download

Europe facing 2^nd wave of COVID19

• Countries across Europe are seeing a resurgence in COVID-19 cases after successfully slowing outbreaks early in the year.
• The vast majority of countries are declaring more cases each day now than they were during the first wave earlier this year.

Germany

France

UK

Italy

India

Lockdowns

• Regions in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and elsewhere in Europe are introducing curfews in a bid to stem the spike.
• 22 October – Ireland became the first country in Europe to reimpose a national lockdown. cases.
• France – 46 million of France’s 67 million people will be under 9 p.m.-6 a.m. curfews that prohibit them from being out and about during those hours except for limited reasons.

‘Firebreak’ Lockdown

• A “firebreak” lockdown, also known as a “circuit breaker”, is essentially a short burst of tough lockdown restrictions to break the chain of coronavirus transmission.
• The idea behind a “firebreak” is to stop Covid-19 in its tracks by drastically reducing social contacts and social mixing, while not inflicting more major damage on the economy.

Is the reason Increased Testing?

• France is now testing around 1.3 million people a week with its expanded testing programme, but the percentage of people testing positive for the virus showed another alarming lurch upwards, now standing at 14.3 percent.
• Most countries failed to use the summer to build robust testing and tracing operations.
• Now they are falling back on blunt measures – quarantines and curfews.

A silver lining?

• Death rates are substantially lower than Spring time though.

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