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Europe’s Virus Woes Sharpen Clash Over Big-City Restrictions
- Germany reports most cases since April, Italy’s curve rising
- Madrid region warns of economic harm with curbs taking effect
A waiter carries terrace tables during closing time at a restaurant in Paris on Sept. 28.
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Europe’s resurgent coronavirus outbreak is threatening to shut down Paris’s culinary institutions, spurring record cases in the continent’s east and sidetracking European Union leaders.
Positive tests and intensive-care hospitalizations have climbed past the “maximum alert” level in Paris, and the French government may have to require bars and restaurants as soon as Monday if the trend continues, according to Health Minister Olivier Veran.