New protests loom in Italy as Europeans tire of COVID-19 restrictions

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MILAN: Italy braced on Tuesday (Oct 27) for more protests in cities nationwide against virus-fighting measures like regional curfews, evening ...

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MILAN: Italy braced on Tuesday for more protests in cities nationwide against virus-fighting measures like regional curfews, evening shutdowns for restaurants and bars and the closures of gyms, pools and theaters — a sign of the growing discontent across Europe with renewed COVID-19 restrictions.

“We would all like to live like before, but there are moments where you have to make tough decisions,” French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Tuesday as the government held emergency meetings on the pandemic. In Britain, anger and frustration at the government’s uneven handling of the pandemic has erupted into a political crisis over the issue of hungry children. The Conservative government is under huge pressure to keep giving free school lunches to children from lower-income families when schools close during the current midterm break and the Christmas holidays.

Taxi drivers in Turin occupied a central square, restaurant owners banged pots and pans in front of the prefect’s office in Cremona, hundreds marched in Treviso, north of Venice, and young people blocked traffic and threw firecrackers in Viareggio on the Tuscan coast. Investigators have also looked into indications that organised crime in the Naples area provoked violence at a peaceful protest.

France is warning of possible new lockdowns, including extending existing curfews, fully keeping residents at home on weekends or all week and closing non-essential businesses. Since curfews were imposed a couple of weeks ago, French police have issued 14,000 fines, the interior minister said on Tuesday. Doctors are seeing growing pressure on France's emergency services and intensive care wards, where COVID-19 patients now take up more than half of the beds.

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