코로나19 감염 2차 대유행에 유럽 곳곳 재봉쇄... 연일 최고치<br /><br />Many parts of Europe continue to see record high daily tallies of COVID-19,... including Italy,... which reported over 16-thousand in the past 24 hours.<br />With France reporting over 40-thousand,... the country has extended its curfew to 38 regions.<br />Lee Seung-jae reports.<br />Europe continues to be a hotbed of COVID-19,... as many countries continue to shatter previous daily records.<br />This includes France,... which reported over 41-thousand new cases on Thursday.<br />France's total caseload is quickly approaching one million.<br />Earlier in the day,... the French government announced a broad extension of the curfew put in place a week ago in Paris and other major cities.<br />The measures have now been extended to 54 regions and one overseas territory,... putting at least 46 million people under curfew.<br />This comes as 38 regions were added on Thursday.<br />The curfew is in effect from 9PM to 6AM.<br />Italy continues to report new daily records,... as the country saw over 16-thousand cases in the past 24 hours,... shattering the record reported a day earlier.<br />For the second straight day,... the northern region of Lombardy reported more than 4-thousand new cases,.. more than double any other region.<br />Most cases in the Lombardy region have occurred in Milan,... Italy's financial center.<br />Italy's PM Giuseppe Conte earlier said he's ready to apply tougher restrictions if the situation worsens.<br />In the Czech Republic,... the nation of 10 million is now reporting more new COVID-19 cases per 100-thousand people than any major country in the world,... with nearly 15-thousand new cases seen on Wednesday.<br />On the same day,... Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis apologized to the people,... admitting he and his government had failed to handle the outbreak.<br />For weeks,... the Prime Minister has refused to impose stricter measures,... citing the need to protect the economy.<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.<br />
