Euro 2020, Uefa: “Final stay in London”. Ira Germany

The Euro 2020 final remains in London, despite fears related to the spread of the delta variant. “All the remaining matches of the European Championships will take place as scheduled. The mitigation measures adopted in each of the Euro 2020 venues are in line with the regulations decided by the competent local health authorities”, said UEFA. “The final decisions on the number of spectators who will attend the matches and the entry requirements in the host nations and stadiums fall under the responsibility of the competent local authorities and UEFA strictly follows all these measures”, reads the statement. German government. “I think UEFA’s behavior is absolutely irresponsible,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said at a conference in Berlin, responding to a question about the European final at Wembley. At his side, the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, added: “I suspect that there is a commercial problem, and such reasons should not prevail over health protection.” Matches with the public at the European Championships in some cases have already caused an increase in coronavirus infections. In Scotland, 397 cases have been reported of people who contracted the virus after attending the match between the Scottish national team and England on 18 June. An increase in infections was also recorded in St. Petersburg. “We all know that contact must be avoided”, Seehofer remarked, underlining that the scenes seen in some stadiums of “people very close to each other celebrating victories with big hugs “surely” will favor the occurrence of infections “covid.