ADVERTISEMENTGovernments have reintroduced containment measures to slow the renewed spread of the virus in nations that only weeks earlier believed they had triumphed over the crisis. After Spain became the first European country to officially record a million Covid-19 cases earlier in the week, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Friday the real number of infections was likely more than triple that number. Urgent new restrictions on daily life have come into effect in several nations, with France extending a curfew to cover 46 million people. “Too many countries are seeing an exponential increase in Covid-19 cases and that is now leading to hospitals and intensive care units running close to or above capacity,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Belgium has seen one of Europe’s deadliest per capita outbreaks and has found itself suffering some of the highest second-wave infection rates in Europe.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 24, 2020 05:03 UTC