WHO alert: new wave of Covid coming to Europe.
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It could spread in Europe both because of the Delta Variant and because of the concern about the spread of the virus coming from Africa. This is why there is the WHO alarm about a new wave of covid arriving in Europe. The scholars explained it.
After ten weeks of calm, cases recorded a 10% increase last week, with the curve rising again after more than two months. And now we must remain vigilant, warns the head of the World Health Organization for theEurope, launching an appeal not to loosen the measures too much, to avoid the mistakes of last summer and avert the alarm WHO new covid wave.
WHO alert: new wave of covid coming to Europe
Starting from the European football championships which, between fans gathered in stadiums and celebrations, risk becoming a fuse. In Rome, as in Monaco. But also in St. Petersburg, home of one of the quarter-finals, which for days has continued to record alarming numbers while all of Russia is grinding out new records of deaths. The same fears for Wembley, in a United Kingdom that has been marking, for days, new highs in cases (reaching 28 thousand in 24 hours), despite the vaccination campaign being curbing the need for hospitalizations and containing the victims.
WHO alert: new wave of covid coming to Europe
And while the rest of the world is also rushing to re-close to stem the highly contagious mutation that started in India, Israel – a symbolic country in the response to the emergency – is also dealing with an increase in infections and is considering closing Ben Gurion, its international airport. And with the surge in infections, Portugal has decided to reinstate a night-time curfew starting next Friday in 45 municipalities, including the capital Lisbon.
The situation continues to worsen dramatically even in fragile Africa where the WHO photographs an 'unprecedented extent of the third wave', with a 25% increase in cases each week. And a discouraging picture of the vaccination campaign: only 1,2% of the population has received both doses.
“Last week, the number of cases increased by 10% due to increased travel, gatherings and easing of restrictions,” WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge said at a press conference, stressing that “this development comes in the context of a rapidly evolving situation with the Delta variant of concern with millions of people still unvaccinated.”
WHO, unprecedented third wave of Covid brought to Africa
Covid is spreading in Africa at a record pace with the Delta variant taking hold: infections have risen for six consecutive weeks, growing by a quarter every 7 days to reach 202.000 last week and deaths have jumped 15% in 38 African countries. The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on a continent like Africa where only 1,2% of the population has completed the vaccination cycle. "The speed and scale of Africa's third wave are unprecedented," said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa.
According to WHO data, the Delta variant, highly contagious and which could lead to a new wave of Covid in Europe, has been reported in 16 African countries and represents 97% of cases in Uganda and 79% of those in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Compared to the peak of the first wave, a year ago, the demand for oxygen in Africa is now 50% higher.
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“The rampant spread of more contagious variants of Covid-19 takes the threat to Africa to a whole new level,” Moeti warned. African countries are suffering from a severe shortage of Covid vaccines and only 15 million Africans, or 1,2% of the population, have been fully vaccinated
Article published on 2 July 2021 - 08:18
