Five European countries face new lockdowns in days as COVID-19
million in one week.
It comes as a report warned the continent could face an additional “300,000 deaths
and one million people in the hospital” if Covid restrictions aren’t tightened further.
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study – which is yet to be peer
reviewed – warned that 280,000 people in Germany alone could end up in hospital if
restrictions are completely lifted.
It comes as Austria plunges into a lockdown from Monday after the number of people
with Covid in the past fortnight shot up to 1959.88 per 100,000.
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Meanwhile, seven people were injured after Dutch police opened fire on anti-
lockdown rioters who were protesting against the government’s latest shutdown.
Hundreds of rioters descended on Rotterdam’s shopping district, setting cars and
bikes ablaze as they rallied against the latest three-week partial lockdown.
This comes as Europe accounted for more than half of the seven-day average of
infections globally and at least half of the latest Covid deaths, according to a tally by
Reuters.
The World Health Organization said it was the only region in the world where Covid-
related deaths increased last week, leading Belgium’s Prime Minister to say the
continent was on “red alert”.
As colder weather forces people indoors and Covid cases continue to rise, we look at
five countries on course for more brutal lockdowns.
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