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2020-04-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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Virus pain easing in Spain, Italia; UK braces for bleak days
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[AlAhram] A week ago, emergency rooms and intensive care wards in Spain and Italia were overflowing with woozy, coughing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
patients and literally buzzing with breathing machines.
So many died that Barcelona crematories have a waiting list of up to two years, forcing some people to bury loved ones temporarily in cemeteries with the expectation of exhuming them for cremation later on.
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But now the two countries that have suffered more virus deaths than anywhere else in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
are starting to see their crisis ease, while Britannia, where the prime minister has been hospitalized, seems headed in the opposite direction.
Between them, Italia and Spain saw nearly 30,000 deaths and 265,000 confirmed infections in the pandemic. They, and other European countries that locked down weeks ago and ramped up testing, are now seeing the benefits.
Britannia's outbreak was headed in the opposite direction as the country reported more than 600 deaths Sunday, surpassing Italia's daily increase for the second day in a row.
"I think that we are just a week away from the surge of this," the deputy chief executive of Britannia's NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery, told Sky News.
In Spain, deaths and new infections dropped again on Monday. The health ministry reported 637 new fatalities, the lowest toll in 13 days, for a total of over 13,000 dead. New recorded infections were the lowest in two weeks.
Emergency rooms in the hard-hit Madrid region of 6.6 million were returning almost to normal a week after scenes of patients sleeping on floors and in chairs.
Patients awaiting treatment in Madrid-area ERs went down Monday to 390 cases, one-tenth of the arrivals last week, the regional government said. The number of people being treated for coronavirus in intensive care stabilized at about 1,500 for five straight days.
At the San Carlos Clinic Hospital in Madrid, nearly 15% of the hospital's 1,400-strong staff contracted the coronavirus, in line with the national average,
"Our priority at the moment is to bring health workers back to work," said Dr. Julio Mayol, the facility's medical director.
Still, there are fears for a new outbreak as Spanish authorities begin talking about loosening the grip on mandatory confinement, and the strain on hospitalizations will still be seen for another week while that in intensive care units for another two weeks, Mayol said.
Italia still has, by far, the world's highest coronavirus corpse count - almost 16,000 - but the pressure on northern Italia's ICUs has eased so much that Lombardy is no longer airlifting patients to other regions.
In the northern city of Bergamo, one of Europe's virus epicenters, hospital staff were still pulling long, difficult shifts even if the numbers of new patients had eased a bit.
"There has been no reduction in the work," said Maria Berardelli, a nursing coordinator at Pope John XXIII hospital. "There have been fewer admissions to the emergency room, but our intensive care units are still full, so the activity hasn't been reduced."
Illness has been compounded by shocking economic pain as all the world's largest economies have ground to a halt, including in Italia and Spain. In La Belle France, which slightly trails its two neighbors to the south in deaths and infections, the government shut the country down two days after Italia - and has also seen a slight easing.
The U.K. initially resisted taking some of the tough measures seen in other European countries, which banned large events, shut schools and closed their borders to slow the spread of the COVID-19 illness.
The government's first advice was that people should wash their hands frequently. As the number of cases soared, the response escalated to include the closure of schools, bars, restaurants and non-essential shops and a nationwide order for everyone but key workers to stay home.
Now, Austria and the Czech Republic are openly discussing how to ease some of the crippling restrictions. Austria's chancellor said the plan is to let small shops and garden centers reopen next week, with limits on the number of customers inside, and the rest on May 1. The Czech government is proposing an end to the ban on travel abroad as of April 14 and the reopening of small stores. 
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