“Countries are having to work very, very hard to both understand the scale of infection but also health systems are beginning to come under pressure across the region.”
FILE PHOTO: A logo is pictured on the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/DENIS BALIBOUSE
However in Europe, schools, pools, pubs and tourist sites have begun to open, defying warnings that this could trigger a second wave of infections. Latin America has passed one million cases and recorded more than 50,000 deaths. Brazil has reported more than half of those cases and close to 60 percent of the fatalities.
Bars began to serve again in Finland and Norway — with distancing restrictions or shortened hours in place — while some schools in Britain and Greece opened their doors again. In Romania, Bucharest’s Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum reopened, as did Rome’s famed Colosseum, although only to Italians.
In South Africa, scores of joyous people blasting music queued outside liquor stores in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, waiting to stock up after a nine-week ban on alcohol sales ended.
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