Macron told the country: 'I decided that it was necessary to insist on a lockdown throughout the country from Friday'. But unlike the previous lockdown, most schools are to remain open as their closure was deemed 'too damaging' by Macron. In Italy, violence was reported in at least two major northern cities, Milan and Turin, as vast crowds protested freedom-limiting restrictions enforced to tackle a second surge in coronavirus cases. Virtually every major European country has reported a record one-day total of coronavirus cases either in the last 24 hours, or within the last seven days. The World Health Organization said more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases were reported last week - the shortest time ever for such an exponential increase.

Source: The Nation October 28, 2020 22:04 UTC