Portugal, Italy ... New cases of coronavirus appear in our European neighbors

PROPAGATION - As France reopens its borders on Monday, other European countries are worried about a resurgence of the epidemic. In Italy, Rome has more than 120 cases from two clusters, while in Portugal, an increase in contamination has forced Lisbon to establish mini-containment.

While France and Europe are gradually emerging from confinement and resuming a "normal life", certain sources of contamination are causing concern. In France, nearly 200 "clusters" have been identified by Public Health France since the start of deconfinement, 92 of which are still active. Beyond our borders, reopened since Monday, other countries are seeing the same phenomenon.

Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic with more than 34,000 deaths in recent weeks, has two outbreaks of contamination in its capital, Rome. In total, these two "clusters" total more than 120 positive cases.

A building and a hospital, the two Italian "clusters"

The first is located in an illegally occupied building in Garbatella, a popular district in the south of the capital. Fifteen positive cases were calculated there, out of 108 people tested. The health authorities assure that the situation is there "under control". "All the positive cases have been transferred and their contacts identified and tested," said the regional crisis cell Covid-19, in reports reported by the AFP.

The second is located in San Raffaele Pisana hospital, on the western outskirts of the capital. 109 positive cases were identified, including five fatal. An epidemiological investigation is underway, according to regional authorities, who assure that "vigilance remains very high". However, this is not the time to worry. "These micro-stoves were inevitable, but they are limited in time and space," said Ranieri Guerra, deputy director of the World Health Organization, in the local press. "We have the elements to intercept and contain them."

In Portugal, the time for mini-reconfinement

Another country whose situation seems worrying: Portugal. Even if the country was relatively spared from the pandemic (see video below), with around 1,500 officially registered deaths, an increase in new infections was observed in Lisbon. According to RFI, Portugal registers 300 new cases of Covid-19 every day, the health alert threshold, the vast majority of which is in the Lisbon region.

Faced with this resurgence, and to avoid a massive spread, a mini-reconfiguration was even in effect at the end of the week in the Portuguese capital. Between June 10 and June 14, exit restrictions were imposed by the city on its residents. Also according to the radio, a thousand law enforcement officers were responsible for enforcing this temporary measure, taken during the national holiday, celebrated on June 10 in Portugal.

As in Europe, China is tested by local containment

Europe is no exception. In China, the cradle of a pandemic that could have started as early as the summer of 2019, new cases are also emerging. In 24 hours, 36 positive cases were registered in Beijing, all linked to a market in the Chinese capital.

Coronavirus: a second wave in France in August, according to an epidemiologist By CNEWS - Updated on 06/17/2020 at 14:20

France is green, school is resuming, restaurants are reopening: is it the end of the coronavirus? Not sure, if one believes Martin Blachier, epidemiologist specializing in public health. On the set of C in the air, on France 5, he assured that a second wave was inevitable in France, going as far as to date it very precisely for "the second fortnight of August".

The epidemiologist was notably invited to speak on the new cases of Covid-19 that have appeared in recent days in certain countries that nevertheless seemed to have the epidemic under control, such as China or New Zealand.

However, the models carried out by Martin Blachier's consulting firm, Public Health Expertise, predict a destiny similar to France. According to the epidemiologist, the country could again find itself in shortage of beds, as at the height of the epidemic. "I think it will be fair," he replied to a viewer wishing to know if French hospitals could cope with this new wave of patients.

He is no more optimistic about the number of screening tests, ensuring that there will not be enough "to be able to make all the contacts of all the cases that will be diagnosed". Slight cloudiness in this very dark sky: the second wave described by Martin Blachier "is not as high" as the previous one, thanks to the measures taken. On the other hand, it risks being “longer”.

Coronavirus the OMS warns that a second wave is possible without measures to protect against it

By dating this rebound of the epidemic to "the second half of August", the epidemiologist presents a version slightly different from that of the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, who estimated the possible phenomenon "in the fall". Two theories that are not attractive.

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