Europe's Coronavirus Déjà Vu

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Millions of Europeans are facing tighter restrictions on their movements, with London, Paris, and Vienna enforcing stricter curbs. On Monday, the government of Wales announced a two-week “fire-break” lockdown designed to curb the spread of coronavirus. All non-essential retail outlets, including pubs and restaurants, will be closed from October 23rd to November 9th. Bloomberg reporter Catherine Bosley reports how Europe is hoping to control this new wave of coronavirus infections and whether another round of restrictions and lockdowns can offset the economic devastation in the region the pandemic has already caused.

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0:32.1	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 221 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:41.8	Today's main story? By all outward appearances, Europe seems to be entering a frightening
0:48.2	coronavirus deja vu at the moment. COVID-19 cases are rising quickly and several countries are threatening widespread
0:56.9	lockdowns. A closer look, though, reveals Europe's second wave is very different from its first.
1:05.3	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:14.3	Globalism. Here's what happened in virus news today. Global coronavirus cases have exceeded 40 million, with the pandemic showing no signs of slowing.
1:22.4	Infections have reached record numbers across Europe, while the U.S. and India are averaging more than 50,000 cases a day.
1:32.3	Although it took six months for the worldwide tally to reach 10 million cases, subsequent milestones
1:38.8	have come increasingly faster, with the latest 10 million cases added in just 32 days. Global cases reached a single-day
1:49.2	record of more than 415,000 on Friday. China's economic recovery continues to accelerate,
1:58.1	thanks to an aggressive coronavirus containment policy that has allowed
2:02.7	local factories to reopen. China's eastern port city of Qingdao conducted 10.9 million coronavirus
2:11.3	tests in only five days after 13 infections were discovered in the city. It's another demonstration of China's ambitious
2:21.0	strategy in mass testing wherever infections are reported. Ching Dao's campaign was completed roughly
2:28.4	three times faster than a similar experiment by Wuhan in May. Chinese cities have adopted a batch testing method
2:36.7	that enables as many as 10 samples
2:39.3	to be assessed simultaneously.
2:42.7	However, the strategy is rarely used in Western countries
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