According to the World Health Organization, Europe is “again at the epicenter” of the epidemic. Germany lives in particular a fourth qualified wave of “massive” by the authorities.
Le Monde with AFP
The World Health Organization has alarmed, Thursday, November 4, the “very worrying” pace of CVIV-19 transmission currently in Europe, which could lead to half a million additional deaths on the continent. ‘here in February. “We are, again, to the epicenter,” deplored the director of WHO Europe, Hans Kluge, at an online press conference. “If we stay on this trajectory, we could see another half-million death due to COVID-19 in the region by February,” he said.
For WHO, the increase in cases is explained by the combination of insufficient immunization coverage and the easing of anti-Covid-19 measurements. According to these data from WHO Europe, Hospitalizations related to Covid-19 “have more than doubled in one week.” The number of new cases per day has been rising for nearly six consecutive weeks in Europe, and the number of new deaths per day has been rising for just over seven consecutive weeks, with about 250,000 cases and 3,600 daily deaths, According to official data by country compiled by AFP.
The organization has called up to continue to massively use masks against the pandemic. “Reliable projections show that if we reached a 95% use rate of masks in Europe and Central Asia, we could save up to 188,000 lives on half a million lives we risk losing Here in February 2022, “said Kluge.
Germany affected by a fourth” massive “wave
For his part, Germany is struck by a fourth wave, “massive”, especially touching the non-vaccinated, according to the Government of Angela Merkel. The country recorded on Thursday a new number of new CVIV-19 infections, with 33,949 additional cases in twenty-four hours, according to the Robert-Koch sanitary watch institute. The previous record was reached on December 18, 2020, with 33,777 new infections.
“We are currently experiencing a pandemic, essentially non-vaccinated, and is massive,” said the Minister of Health on Wednesday, Jens Spahn. “The fourth wave of the pandemic develops, alas, as we fear, because the number of vaccinated is not enough,” said the president of the Robert-Koch sanitary watch institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler .
“If the situation continues to deteriorate in hospitals at the regional level, then new restrictions only intervene for non-vaccinated”, warned Steffen Seibert, spokesperson.. Mr Spahn called on all regions, competent about health issues, to harden the rules for non-vaccinated by prohibiting access to certain public places or by requiring expensive PCR test. Some, like the Saxony or Baden-Württemberg, have implemented such measures or are about to do it.