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Lockdown! The year 2020 has gone but, when still mere thought of it brings shivers down the spine of all of us all those hopeless disturbing visuals of people losing lives and their loved ones, the economy of the whole world going down-hill. For weeks, Boris Johnson of Britain has resisted the calls to announce anational lockdown as the COVID cases have increased inexorably and said that closing the country for the second time in this year would be really “disaster”.
But the leader of British on Saturday joined his counterparts in Germany, and Belgium to order a shutdown across the nation. New restrictions of national lockdown will actually take effect around England on Thursday and might go up to a month.
Whereas Wales has announced a lockdown last week and the Scottish leaders have said that the next few days will be going too tough for Scotland to avoid lockdown in the border of North along with England also. Universities and schools, as well as courts to stay open and industrial construction, will be also allowed to operate. But there will be no household mixing and unessential stores, restaurants, and pubs are to shut-down. It has said to the employers to encourage the employees to work from home if it is possible.
Prime Minister of British has planned a meeting with his top Cabinet members on Friday for a discussion for strengthening the restriction for the worsening coronavirus infection rates and the hospital admission is rising again.
Well, Housing Minister Mr. Robert Jenrick has said that he didn’t think that it was predictable that the UK would need to follow Germany and France to enforce the restrictions across the nation. Even the government judgment has said that the blanket national lockdown is not the decision which we should announce.
Financial markets have stabilized somewhat on the Thursday after a ruthless selloff a day before as the double-dip recession prospect came even more clearly into view. Governments have been anxious to avoid the spring lockdowns repetition of the lockdowns in spring but have been forced to move by the new infections speed and aggressively increasing mortality rate around the continent.
The Interior Ministry has said to the federal police to check the travelers systematically from South Africa and the UK with quick effect and a spokesperson of Ministry has said that there is a need of adding the control events need to be synchronized closely with local health experts and that the travelers should need to expect longer to wait many times at the borders.
Earlier, the government of Dutch has put a stop to all passenger flights to enter the UK after finding an infection case in the Netherlands of the new Coronavirus strain which has been transmitting across Britain.
The ban has started at 6 A.M on the previous Sunday and it will continue up to January 1 and came just after the UK has announced stay-at-home order for South England in which London also comes so that they became successful to slow more infections to the people.
According to RIVM, the Dutch public health body, it has said that “it is suggested that any virus strain introduction from the UK be limited as much as possible juts by limiting or just only by controlling the passengers traveling”. Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said that other transports were still under review.
Actually, Germany has reported cases of 22,771 and 409 deaths in the daily update that is provided by the Robert Koch Institute. Undoubtedly, December has already set to be the most deadly month so far in the battle of Germany with the virus along with almost 10,000 deaths that are recorded in the first three weeks of the starting month.
The death toll is to be double the fatality rate of November of 5,796. The European Medicines Agency on Monday is expected to provide the approval of Germany to start vaccinating on December 27. The Chancellor of German Angela Merkel has announced a lockdown on Wednesday and would take effect on November 2 and will stay until November 30 with the bars and restaurants are only allowed to provide carryout or home delivery service. From Monday, all theaters, swimming pools, gyms, as well as movie theaters will be remaining closed until the next announcement. Merkel has also said as per the health system of Germany “can still cope” with the recent infectious cases, but “at this infection’s speed, it will reach the capacity limits within the weeks”.
Italy has so far seized from doing a formal national lockdown but the pandemic rules have been strengthening and also endorsing violent protests in Turin, Milan, Naples, and Rome as well. European Union leaders on Thursday have pledged to collaborate on the advanced lockdowns that hope to avoid the closure on the border that has seen earlier this year when the pandemic first collide with the continent. During a three-hour of video-conference and the coalition’s 27 heads of the state and the governments also has discussed to develop plans for the swift formulation and distribution of vaccines.
Across 500, 00 people in the UK have had the first shot of the vaccination but England could face another lockdown in the New Year that will be really effective while the rollout will go ahead.
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister has announced hopes that life will get returned to normal by Easter and marking a year as the first lockdown. In this Pandemic, almost 76, 287 people in the UK have lost their lives and it is one of the highest death tolls in the world.
