A new announcement has it that France will enforce a month-long night-time curfew in Paris and eight other major cities and towns aimed at fighting the Coronavirus second wave.
The capital will shut down for nine hours from 9 pm until 6 am, hoping this will stop the disease from circulating, President Emmanuel Macron said.
This strict State of Emergency measure will reach Lille, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, Toulouse, Lyon, Grenoble, Aix-en-Provence and Montpellier.
All bars, restaurants, theatres, and similar businesses will have to shut at 9 pm sharp from Saturday at the president’s orders.
In the midst of this, Italy saw its highest ever daily spike with 7,332 new cases today, while Belgium warned that intensive care units will hit capacity by mid-November if care is not taken.
Spain’s Catalonia bars and restaurants were shut down, while schools are closing again around Europe amid tougher restrictions across the continent as leaders face their nightmare scenario of a Covid-19 resurgence on the eve of winter.
Some areas in Spain closed bars and restaurants for 15 days in a ‘painful but necessary’ measure after adding nearly 11,000 cases in the space of a week.