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Can Europeans Handle a Spike in COVID-19 Cases?

Jamie Dettmer

   The United States is not the only country watching anxiously as
   coronavirus cases spike.

   Britain is poised to shutter individual towns in the event of a rise in
   confirmed cases. And the government has already locked down the English
   town of Leicester, where textile factories may be behind an alarming
   jump in infections, just as the rest of the country celebrated the
   easing of restrictions.

   Serbia reimposed a lockdown Friday as cases began to mount. Last month,
   neighboring Croatia reinstituted mandatory two-week self-isolation for
   travelers arriving from other Balkan countries. Bulgaria extended its
   state of emergency until July 15 and has made mask-wearing mandatory
   inside stores and public buildings.

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