Rome (AP) – Europe, in most of the city’s squares and streets, they live in the wide, elegant boulevards such as the streets of Paris or Rome, animated evening extensions of the living room, places to gather and view, to laugh. Work as spheres, chat and drink with friends.
Yet with the continent hard-hitting with a surge of record new daily infections, European governments have once again placed limits on how residents live and socialize. In response, AP photographers across Europe gave a snapshot on Friday evening – the weekend entrance – now looks and sounds.
For example, in Italy, “passegitata”, or a walk, is a post-dinner ritual. And since dinner and in southern Europe often starts at 9 pm or even later, people are often out until midnight or earlier, debating politics, talking about old times, Stop to study the display of the shop window, buy an ice cream or smoke one.
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The streets of Paris and other large French cities became deserted at night when authorities tried to curb a coronovirus surge after curfew from 9am to 6am, which has seen France’s top 1 million infections. The move created noise, silence and darkness enveloped the streets of Paris – operating only a few cars and almost empty buses and subway trains.
The historic center of Rome is brutally desolate, with tourists banned from entering Italy from several countries during the epidemic, including the United States. The young Romans who roamed out for hours of meringue for beers and cocktails in iconic squares such as the Campo de ‘Fiori of the medieval era, such squares are banned from 9 a.m. to midnight, when the curfew for the entire region went in goes.
A cautious, popular arcade in Brussels that calls for Muscles platelets to attract participants for generations, which sadly now resonates with laughter and chatter with the city’s famous brewery .
And forget a night in the pub with London’s best friends or office cronies. Under the new tight restrictions, people can only go out to eat or drink with their household members. Those who love to break loose on the dance floor have been disappointed in Britain since March, when night clubs were closed.
Bars and restaurants in Barcelona have been closed again for table and counter service, as a new surge of infections pushed Spain to a total of over 1 million cases. Only the delivery or takeout business is now allowed in that overzealous Northeast city.
Yet in Moscow, the European country’s capital with the highest number of confirmed infections – more than 1.47 million cases – the streets are bustling as patrons, wearing some masks or keeping safe distances, packed bars and restaurants Troubled for.
Russian officials have ordered staff and customers at open spots between midnight and 6 a.m. to register for contact tracing purposes, but President Vladimir Putin’s government appears determined to avoid any national lockdown that would have affected his popularity. Can increase more.
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