European infections have been running at an average of almost 100,000 a day. FMTNews Covid19
Commuters walk across London Bridge during the morning rush hour in London on Oct 12.
But the return of normal activity — from packed restaurants to new university terms — fuelled a sharply rising spike in cases all over the continent. “Sometimes we are at the edge of crying,” said Lenka Krejcova, a head nurse at Slany hospital near Prague, as builders hurried to turn a general ward into a Covid-19 department.
In Germany, politicians are debating whether to extend the Christmas-New Year school break to reduce contagion, though critics say there is no evidence schools have been hot spots. The United Kingdom, France, Russia and Spain accounted for more than half of Europe’s new cases in the week to Oct 11, according to the World Health Organization.
“Curfew … this is a word we haven’t heard in a long time,” shrugged pensioner Francis Boutry at a Paris market, recalling the 1954-62 Algerian war.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces opposition calls for another national lockdown in England, but has so far resisted. Hospital admissions, however, are climbing and field hospitals constructed in the spring are once more being readied.
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