Record Covid-19 infection levels, lockdowns mar festive cheer in Europe

Rising coronavirus complaint cases in Europe have led to wide enterprises among croakers and scientists as governments put lockdown measures to check the spread of the complaint ahead of Christmas and New Year’s Day. 

 Austria, Germany and Russia were among the nations in Europe which saw record surges in diurnal Covid-19 cases and deaths. These countries also tensed restrictions and Austria came the first European nation to put a civil lockdown to check the recent spread of Covid-19. 

‘ Dramatic situation’ 

 German vice chancellor Angela Merkel prompted citizens to get vaccinated as the German government introduced tighter restrictions to check the nation’s loftiest Covid-19 infection situations since the onset of the epidemic. “ The situation is extremely dramatic,” Merkel said. 

German health minister Jens Spahn also said that Germany may have to transfer Covid-19 cases from one region to another or indeed to neighbouring nations for treatment. “ We’re getting to a point where we will have to transfer Covid cases not just within the same region, but to other regions within Germany. And relatively conceivably indeed to neighbouring countries,” Spahn was quoted as saying by news agency Deutsche Welle. 

 Germany recorded diurnal new infections on Friday. Bavaria, the German state, canceled all of its popular Christmas requests due to the rise in Covid-19 cases. 

Austria imposes lockdown 

 Austria assessed a public lockdown to check cases and asked the entire population to get completely vaccinated by February. “ We haven’t succeeded in satisfying enough people to get vaccinated. It hurts that similar measures still have to be taken,” Austrian chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said. 

“ There are too numerous among us who have n’t shown solidarity. Raising the vaccination rate is the only way to break this vicious circle,” Schallenberg was quoted as saying by news agency Bloomberg. 

 The civil lockdown will begin from Monday. The nation reported new cases in the last 24 hours, the loftiest since the onset of the epidemic. 

Russia continues to report record Covid-19 deaths 

 Russia continued to report record Covid-19 deaths on Friday as it recorded fresh losses along with new verified cases. It reported deaths on Thursday and deaths on Wednesday. 

Russian authorities criticized the recent swell in infection situations on lax stations among people and low vaccination rates. Out of Russia’s 146 million people only 40 have been completely vaccinated despite the nation launching Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the entire world. 

 The recent shaft in cases in Europe have also led to fear among investors who feel that measures to check the cases could delay the profitable recovery. Canvas prices also fell on Friday to$ 78 a barrel as European requests plodded due to the recent swell in cases.

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