Europe tightens COVID-19 curbs as WHO urges countries to enforce quarantine measures

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Belgium imposed a nationwide overnight curfew on Monday as Switzerland made wearing face masks compulsory in indoor public spaces, the latest ...

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from midnight on Wednesday, with all non-essential retail businesses to close and bars and restaurants limited to takeaway service only, although schools will remain open., 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.

Their populations had shown"higher levels of trust" in their governments who had kept up measures longer. "I know there’s fatigue but the virus has shown that when we let our guard down, it can surge back at breakneck speed and threaten hospitals and health systems," Tedros said.Many governments are seeking to avoid the costly full-scale lockdowns imposed in the first wave as they battle to keep their economies going.

"The second wave is here, earlier and stronger than we expected, but we are prepared," Swiss Health Minister Alain Berset said.from the weekend in nine cities including Paris, affecting 20 million people, with a record 32,400 new infections reported on Saturday. Saudi Arabia also eased more of its own virus restrictions when it allowed worshippers to re-enter the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, for prayers on Sunday for the first time since March.

A vaccine remains the greatest hope to end the cycle of imposing and lifting lockdowns across the world, and the United Nations said Monday it would stockpile a billion syringes worldwide by the end of 2021 for that purpose.

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