French teachers' unions called a nationwide strike on Tuesday, protesting over inadequate protection against Covid-19, as the Italian government introduced tough new rules across much of the country following the continued rapid spread of the virus there.
Teachers in France say it is impossible for schools to enforce social distancing among pupils even after sanitation rules were tightened earlier this month. Classes are too big, and schools lack staff and equipment such as individual tables, they say.
“We are raising the alarm because we don’t want schools to become clusters,” elementary school teacher and union leader Guislaine David said. She said she wants schools to remain open.
Teachers also say parents don’t always report new cases of infection at home to their children’s schools. On Nov. 6, the education health ministry said schools reported a total number of 3,528 new cases of infections among pupils over the previous four days. During the same period, national health authorities said 29,000 children aged from 0 to 19-years-old tested positive for the virus. While not all children up to the age of 19 are in school—children in France attend school typically from 3 years to 18-years-old—the gap is hard to understand, teachers say.
In Italy, the government is rolling out tough restrictions as a growing number of hospitals north and south of the peninsula struggle to cope with the influx of Covid-19 patients.
Parts of the country, including the region of Lombardy, have been under lockdown since Friday.
More regions seen as high risk will be subject to stricter rules starting Wednesday. In those regions, which include Tuscany, bars and restaurants will have to shut and high schools will revert to remote lessons. Travel in, out and within those regions will be barred.
The Italian government is considering imposing a national lockdown as its scientific experts warn that the outbreak will likely worsen in coming weeks. Italy has detected an average of 678 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks, a fourfold increase from a month earlier.
In some other European countries, new cases showed signs of leveling off.
Germany recorded 15,332 new cases on Monday, according to data released Tuesday morning by the Robert Koch Institut, Germany's center for disease control. This was slightly down on the 15,352 cases recorded the previous Monday, the first decline in weeks. However, the country continues to experience a sharp rise in the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, up from 1,362 to 3,005 in the past two weeks.
In the U.K., 22,786 cases were recorded daily on average over the seven days to Monday, just 0.2% higher than a week earlier. Hospitalizations were up on average 5.0% at 1,486 daily. Data on deaths, a lagging indicator of the virus’s toll, showed 341 daily Covid-19-related fatalities recorded over the week, a rise of 28.6% compared with the previous week.
With a national lockdown in place across England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Monday that preliminary evidence of the success of a new vaccine shouldn’t cause people to let their guard down. “The biggest mistake we could make now would be to slacken our resolve at such a critical moment,” he said.
Belgium’s improving trends continued, with new hospitalizations, numbers of patients in intensive care units and the number on ventilators trending downward or leveling off. The seven-day average number of cases through Friday—the most recent day for which data are available—fell by almost half, and remained well below the 14-day average, which also dipped slightly. Deaths show signs of hitting a plateau, and remain well below spring levels, even though hospitalizations recently far surpassed March’s peak.
In the Netherlands, hospitalizations, case numbers and deaths all remain stable or are trending downward over recent days.
Russia recorded 20,977 new infections on Tuesday, slightly less than the previous day's record high of 21,798. It has seen a total of 1.8 million cases, of which 481,000 occurred in Moscow, and more than 31,000 deaths. Moscow has registered 7,429 deaths.
Moscow announced new measures to try to stop the virus's spread, including closing the city’s bars and nightclubs at 11:00 p.m. and limiting opening times for restaurants and cafes. The measures will remain in place until Jan. 15.
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