10:55 am: The 60,000 gauge still makes you cringe
As planned for several days now, the semi-finals and the final of the Euro are supposed to be contested in Webley in front of 60,000 spectators, which is not to everyone’s taste. In the United Kingdom, where contamination due to the Delta variant of the coronavirus is soaring, this influx, although reduced, raises a lot of questions.
“I really wonder if that is not a little too much”, thus launched Friday the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, “very concerned” as could have been before her the president of the Italian Council Mario Draghi or the vice-president of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas. Faced with these reservations, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson highlighted the “wall of immunity” built by the United Kingdom with its vaccination program, thanks to which 63% of adults received two doses of the vaccine.