ITALY:
The most affected economy in Europe with a death toll nearing 20,000. Not happened in Italy in more than 3 weeks, the least number of deaths has been reported lately. This control has only caused the United States number of deaths passing Italy, but the numbers are still huge i.e. almost 20,000.
The director of infectious diseases Massimo Galli from Milan Sacco Hospital said in an interview to a T.V channel that things are going better now, with few people needing an intensive care bed. Hence, some signs of positivity while the numbers are still huge.
However, a huge impact on the Fashion and trade industry in Milano. The effect takes place amid COVID-19 with effects on Italy’s fashion industry. Known as Europe’s fashion hub and fashion capital. The gorgeous city Milano is under a complete lockdown just like the rest of the country. Very few numbers can be seen in downtown Milano and the City Centre, making it clear that the country is under a crisis amid ‘COVID-19’ disaster. One of the worst-hit pandemic for many decades has made things worse for the Milan fashion industry and the migrations to Italy especially the number of students coming to Italy has declined.
UNITED KINGDOM:
The current deaths from the U.K are 10,612 and stats have shown that approximately 65% of the deaths are from England. The Prime Minister of the U.K., Boris Johnson spent at least 3 days in intensive care. Was taken to a hospital in London, after testing positive a week before. Boris Johnson, also the Ex-Mayor of London is now out of danger and is back in 10 downing street. A respiratory treatment was given to the Prime Minister to get out of breathing issues.
Other sufferings to the economy are in-form of immigrations and people coming annually to the U.K. for academics, research, and higher education.
SPAIN:
Spain, a country that has a history of pandemics, one of them being the Spanish flu that occurred from 1918-1920. The number of new infections was raised to almost 4,200. However, the last 24 hours count of deaths mounted to 620 in Spain. The total deaths are 17,209 i.e. 2nd highest numbers after Italy highly affecting many industries.
According to the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the efforts by the Spaniard to stay at home has helped a huge deal in the control over the spread of the virus. Spain’s construction and heavy industries are in preparation to resume work as work restrictions since the last two weeks have been lifted. People should start with their normal life soon. This is after a series of positives from Madrid. The positive efforts have helped Govt. of Spain a great deal in terms of restoring the economy.
FRANCE:
Meanwhile, France is the 3rd largest hit country from COVID-19, in Europe after Italy and Spain. As number speaks for itself i.e. 14,393, the efforts are increasing every day to reduce the number of intensive care patients. There have been positive results with reasonable drops in the number of intensive care patients.
According to a statement from Health ministry, Paris. They said that the observance is high, however, the vigilance should be increased as hospitals and ICUs are still taking care of huge numbers of patients. The confinement measures shall be increased by the Govt. soon until Mid-May as president Emanuel Macron said in his interview and will announce later in his speech.
GERMANY:
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany is the country that has suffered the least in terms of deaths from the ‘Big Five’ European giants. Solidarity has been the motto of the Govt. and Chancellor Angela Merkel has laid a huge emphasis on solidarity and united efforts.
The current death toll is 3,022, which is a mere 4.63% of the total counts registered from the ‘Big Five’ European nations. The people most at risk from COVID-19 are the elderly and people who are chronically ill or are having a pre-existing condition. Mostly they are in need of support from the community and the Govt. services are readily available for everyone. The stats truly proves the strength of the German economy as compared to the rest of the ‘Big Five’ is capable enough to handle similar extreme scenarios.
The chancellor has requested people to stay at home and the decision to watch a concert, football matches in stadiums or working in the office is no longer personal. They are all decisions that are precisely in the hands of the German Govt. and the Health Ministry. As the Health Minister Spahn, said while laying emphasis in a Press conference that people should realize their corporate social responsibility to fight against COVID-19. Germans must make sure that they take the least risk and avoid all social contacts.
Hence, the positive results of the outbreak are that people are reaching their neighbors and asking if they need assistance. Ironically, the biggest European economy has not seen a melt-down is a huge positive for Germany.
Courtesy: MBE Blog
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