The World Health Organization (WHO) also notes that the daily number of positive tests is increasing rapidly in many European countries. The possible cause is given that due to the falling temperatures, Europeans are increasingly indoors, where the virus is spreading faster.
WHO crisis director Mike Ryan also points to the fact that many countries, such as the Netherlands, have abolished ground rules. “The question now is: will we have the same experience as last year, where health systems are again under pressure?”
High death rate
In Romania, Bulgaria and Latvia, for example, the answer is already clear. The hospitals there are steadily filling up with corona patients, mainly because the vaccination rate is relatively low. In Romania, for example, only slightly more than one in three people has been fully vaccinated against the corona virus. The number of deaths among covid patients is the highest in the European Union compared to the number of inhabitants.
The great distrust among Romanians towards the government explains the low willingness to vaccinate, correspondent David-Jan Godfroid explains in this report:
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