Coronavirus cases are spiking in France, Spain and the UK even as social distancing restrictions ease, stoking concerns among doctors and officials about a “second wave” in countries still reeling from the pandemic’s first wave. - MattMcBradley
Toubiana and other European health officials credit increased testing — France has just introduced free, rapid testing nationwide — for the abrupt increase in new cases.
The two took tests last week at a crowded free testing center in central Paris despite neither suffering from symptoms. The testing site, housed in a large tent in front of Paris’s stately Hôtel de Ville, is among seven such centers in the French capital. On the official level, such optimism remains cautious. France has recently made mask-wearing compulsory in public in most major cities, with violations punishable by a fine. But policymakers have all but ruled out the kind of blanket lockdowns that crushed France’s economy in the spring.
“We have seen in other countries across the world and in Europe this sort of rise in the cases among younger people lead to a rise across the population as a whole,” U.K. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. “So, it’s so important that people don’t allow this illness to infect their grandparents and to lead to the sort of problems that we saw earlier in the year.”
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