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DUBLIN, Oct 20 — A number of European countries took urgent new measures yesterday to combat a second wave of coronavirus infections, as the World Health Organisation blamed the surge in worldwide cases — now more than 40 million — on countries' failure to quarantine infected people properly....

A woman walks through an empty city centre shopping street as the Covid-19 outbreak continues, in Galway, Ireland October 19, 2020. — Reuters pic

Wales also announced “firebreak” confinement measures for two weeks, ordering the territory's three million residents to stay at home except for very limited purposes such as exercise or work, and banning people from mixing indoors or outdoors. But in some countries, people are chafing against new restrictions on daily life, and anti-mask protests, court challenges and battles between central and local governments are on the rise.

“The second wave is here, earlier and stronger than we expected, but we are prepared,” Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset said. Iran, the Middle East country hardest hit by the pandemic, announced a daily record of 337 deaths from coronavirus.

 

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