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253: Trans-Atlantic Travel #in-the-time-of-the-virus. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion

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Image:  A typical 17th century shop, with customers’ being served through an opening onto the street; shutters were used rather than glazing.

Joe Sternberg, WSJ editorial board, in London, josephsternberg, @WSJOpinion, in re: Second or third wave of the virus in Europe and UK.  Spain asks not to be excluded.  We’ve never put an entire economy on hold before; it’s not surprising that no one knows how to bring it back.

TransAtlantic travel #in-the-time-of-the-virus. 
1. https://www.ft.com/content/584ee262-d539-40ca-b145-e42865f2bc6b  European tour operators responded with dismay to new curbs on travel imposed by countries following a string of local upsurges in coronavirus infections, dealing a blow to hopes of a revival in the global tourism industry. Spain’s tourism sector is in particular feeling the brunt of the latest caution, prompting an angry response from Madrid. “Spain is a safe country,” said foreign minister Arancha González Laya.

2/  https://www.ft.com/content/688618a1-1c93-451b-b5eb-3316afae1c9e  Businesses in London and the south east of England have borne the brunt of drops in expenditure during the pandemic with households in the more prosperous parts of the UK reducing spending far more than the rest of the country. There is also mounting evidence that spending fell less in other parts of the UK owing to the financial support measures introduced by the government during the crisis, which will begin to be scaled back from next month.

3. https://www.ft.com/content/38177be2-c782-478a-87ca-c9f113f093a4   British businesses were warned by Boris Johnson on Monday of the risk of a second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn, just as companies were getting ready to encourage more workers back to offices from next week. The prime minister told more than a dozen organisations on a conference call that the pandemic could worsen again after the summer. But he sought to reassure executives it would not be as bad as the first outbreak and stressed the government would seek to avoid a second national lockdown, according to several participants.

4.  https://www.ft.com/content/ec98228e-474c-40e6-b68a-143865064e3d   Tory MPs are urging Boris Johnson to force bosses to order their staff back to offices to prevent a catastrophic decline in city centres around the UK. For the past four months the government has told all workers to stay at home “if possible” to prevent the spread of coronavirus. On August 1 the guidance will be updated so that it is entirely up to employers whether or not to bring back staff to their offices. But many companies are holding out until the autumn — or beyond — because of fears about a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Google this week told its workers around the world that most will not need to return to the office until at least next July. Most large employers across the UK have said they will only gradually bring back staff given concerns about spreading infection.

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