今日もGWらしいいい天気。最高気温27度。買い出しに行ったけど、マスクしてると暑い。スーパーはわりと空いていた。

Shove 押し出す

Unlike Belgium’s policy, the Netherlands has what Prime Minister Mark Rutte described as an “intelligent lockdown”, with florists, ironmongers, bakeries, clothes and toy stores remaining open.

金物屋

I asked the head of Belgium’s Covid-19 taskforce, Minister Philippe De Backer, if he thought the Belgian confinement method was more effective than the more relaxed Dutch and Swedish approaches.

監禁

Not in the short term. Taskforce head Philippe De Backer tells me it’s not “feasible” at the moment, so they will concentrate on the laborious system of tracing manually.

Practicable

Early indications suggest that local carnivals with big gatherings of people in March may have contributed, along with areas where second-generation Italian populations are high. In the case of Charleroi, experts are studying whether the spread was linked to issues of poverty and deprivation

poverty 欠乏

Coronavirus: Why so many people are dying in Belgium https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52491210

ベルギーは人口あたりの死亡率が、世界で一番高いって知らなかった。でも検査していないがCODID-19の疑いのある死亡も含めていると聞くと、それができる国ってすごいと思う。