Between the 1st and the 7th of November, the continent has identified more than 60% of the new SAR-COV-2 infections diagnosed in the world.
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The story is repeated. Europe has become the epicenter of the Pandemic of Covid-19. One year after the epidemic earthquake of autumn 2020, the old continent is the victim of a powerful replica. Last year, he assisted amazed at a soaring new reported cases, which culminated at 2 million the first week of November. A year later almost day for day, he is about to cross this threshold again, after experiencing a spring wave then a great summer reflux. A respite that, as a year ago, had been able to suggest a crisis exit. In vain. “The epidemic has the same form of dispersion that the Ravel’s bolero, where each instrument enters the scene one after the other, says Antoine Flahault, director of the Global Health Institute (University of Geneva). All the world does not enter the epidemic phase at the same time, each geographical cluster plays its partition. “
Europe in the turmoil
So it’s the turn of Europe. Between the er and on 7 November, the European zone has grouped more than 60% of the new CIVID-19 infections diagnosed in the world. And 55% of all deaths (26,726) related to the pandemic, reports the World Health Organization (WHO). “The number of new cases in Europe has increased by 7%, while deaths increased by 10%,” the UN institution underline. In contrast, “the other parts of the world have reported decreases or stable trends [new infections], except Africa, which has risen (+ 4%). As for the global assessment of the pandemic, it was 7 November to 250 million recorded cases and more than 5 million declared deaths, according to WHO. A number of deaths probably very underestimated.
“All over Europe, the summer brake is lifted. The fact that the closed spaces are now less ventilated is surely one of the keys to the current epidemic rebound, Analysis Antoine Flahault. The other brakes represented by the vaccination coverage and the barrier gestures are not enough to counter the variant delta, very contagious. “
These rates of new cases and deaths, which have been climbing for five to six weeks in a row, should still grow over the next two weeks, reports the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). As at November 7, the new case rate was 383.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with 316.4 the previous week for all countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area. Another concern: the rate of new deaths related to Covid-19 (fourteen days) also increases. On November 7, he was from 35.5 Deaths per million inhabitants , against 32.3 the previous . For its part, France has crossed the Cap of 100 cases for 100,000 inhabitants on November 15th.
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