France and Germany have announced new countrywide lockdown after Covid-19 re-emerges. France President Macron has imposed a new nationwide lockdown in France from this Friday. The country has just reported 244 new deaths from coronavirus over the previous 24 hours and 36,437 new confirmed coronavirus cases. Consequently, the total number of new cases has risen to 1,235,132.
The new measures demand that no one should leave their house without proper signed documents. People shall only have permission to seek essential goods and services. However, schools shall remain open, as universities revert to online learning.
France President has noted that this new wave may be worse than the previous wave. Due to this, he said it is predicted that by mid-November all intensive care beds will be filled with Covid-19 cases. To avert this, he says that France needs a sudden “brutal brake” on the transmission of the virus. This will ensure that the country shall land in a situation that doctors will have to make choices between Covid cases and car accident cases.
Our efforts were useful but not enough… We did not anticipate the speed of the spread of virus. We have taken difficult measures, but they are not enough to combat the second wave. A second wave is overwhelming us and it will be harder and more fatal than the first.
Meanwhile, more countries are recording an exponentially growing number. Turkey’s death toll has hit 10,000 after 77 new deaths were recorded.
Germany will be going for a partial lockdown from 2nd November, according to German Governor Angela Merkel. Markel said the number of patients in intensive care units had doubled over the past ten days and said the care system would hit its capacity if the pandemic continued to grow at its current rate, Reuters reports.
Merkel had earlier announced new tough measures.