{"id":22234,"date":"2020-10-28T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22234"},"modified":"2020-10-28T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:27:51","slug":"coronavirus-germany-and-france-to-decide-on-new-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/10\/28\/coronavirus-germany-and-france-to-decide-on-new-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Germany and France to decide on new lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Germany, it is being termed a “lockdown light” for November while in France a four-week lockdown is expected but less severe than in the spring.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to decide with state leaders whether to shut bars, leisure centres and hotels to halt the rise in infections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Emmanuel Macron will give details of French measures later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Covid infections in Europe are almost as high as in the first wave, although testing now is more extensive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Night curfews are in force in several countries. However, one French minister has complained that curfews affecting some 46 million people have failed to halt social interactions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“[The curfew] has simply shifted them – instead of getting together at 21:00, people meet up at six,” the unnamed minister was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The German government is keen to enable families and friends to meet at Christmas, but daily infections have soared to a new high of 14,964 and 85 more deaths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ireland imposed tight measures last week with the aim of reopening before Christmas and Italy shut cinemas and gyms this week in an attempt to “save Christmas”. Now the UK government is under pressure to act too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Germany, it is being termed a “lockdown light” for November while in France a four-week lockdown is expected but less severe than in the spring. Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to decide with state leaders whether to shut bars, leisure centres and hotels to halt the rise in infections. President Emmanuel Macron will give details of French measures later. Covid infections in Europe are almost as high as in the first wave, although testing now is more extensive. Night curfews are in force in several countries. However, one French<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22236,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22234\/revisions\/22236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}