As coronavirus circumstances surge in some European nations, Iceland and Denmark are proscribing social gatherings in pubs, however in several methods.
Iceland has ordered the closure of leisure venues and pubs within the capital space, Reykjavík for 4 days between September 18-21 with a view to counteract the unfold of COVID-19, the federal government mentioned in a press release on Friday.
Iceland has seen a latest spike in coronavirus circumstances. Within the final three days, 53 folks have been identified with coronavirus. Solely 14 of these identified have been in quarantine on the time and 12 of those circumstances have been linked to a pub in Reykjavík, according to health officials.
In the meantime, Denmark mentioned it’s going to decrease the restrict on public gatherings to 50 folks from 100 and order bars and eating places to shut early to curb an increase in new infections.
Denmark has seen day by day infections rise in latest weeks after enjoyable lockdown measures imposed between March and Could.
Bars and eating places must shut at 10 P.M. Each measures will take impact from Saturday, Sept. 19 and final till Oct. 4.
“At current, the restrictions are usually not complete sufficient to ship the Danish financial system backwards,” Denmark economist Soren Kristensen mentioned in a word. “Nonetheless, it’s going to have an effect on the Danish financial system and so we would see the restoration dropping additional momentum.”
