Outbreaks in Germany.... is the same thing happening in Italy, Spain, France...?

[MarcelineMissouri]

I just wondered as the German outbreaks have featured in the news quite a lot but I haven’t seen anything similar for other European countries. Has anyone heard of any? Or anyone living there able to say how things are at the moment?

news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-germanys-r-number-rockets-again-from-1-79-to-2-88-12012143

This summer will cause the second wave, if tourists are allowed to roam all over Europe of course the same thing will happen again.

I wish our government would hold its nerve and keep the quarantine measures in place and not offer the air bridges for one summer. It is the best chance we have of not going back into a lockdown. If the vaccine is ready by October, then we will be able to resume our travels etc afterwards. I understand that travel companies are desperate to get going, and they should be supported to stay operational (in some cases) but honestly the idea that just weeks after having thousands of deaths we all just crack on with a beach holiday and travelling all over the world again is really dangerous and absurd. Totally motivated for the wrong reasons, and it will inflict more economic hardship and pain when lockdown is reintroduced. It is counter productive.

One issue with the airline industry is that it is the lifeblood of the whole economy in U.K. It is catastrophic to close it off for too long.

Listening to stats on R4 on it showed it is very hard to curtail for long.