Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
World Health Organization (WHO) say Europe be the epicenter Covid-19 the world today after experiencing a spike in corona infections of more than 50 percent last October.
Currently, WHO also says Europe is the only region experiencing a spike in Covid-19 cases. Meanwhile, other regions such as Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East, to America have experienced stagnant or even declining cases of the corona virus.
“Europe is again at the center of the pandemic as it was a year ago,” said WHO representative in Europe, Hans Kluge on Thursday (4/11).
Reported by the Associated Press, Kluge warned that the rate of hospitalizations due to the corona virus had doubled in Europe since last week due to a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The WHO has even warned that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Europe could reach half a million by February 2022 if the trend of infections continues the same.
Kluge said the total positive cases of Covid-19 on the blue continent had now reached 78 million. This figure exceeds cases in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Pacific combined.
In its weekly report on the pandemic, the WHO also said daily new cases of Covid-19 jumped 6 percent in Europe. In the previous week, cases were reported to have increased by 18 percent.
This increase makes Europe the only region in the world that is still experiencing an increase in Covid-19 infections. This is because the trend of Covid-19 infections in other regions has been recorded to have stagnated or even decreased.
So far, the highest transmission of the corona virus in Europe reached around 192 new cases per 100,000 people.
The number of daily cases has soared in several Eastern and Central European countries. In the Czech Republic, for example, in one day there were 9,902 new cases on Wednesday.
According to the Czech Ministry of Health, the figure was up to 60 percent more than the previous week. Also, it was the highest daily case since March 23.
Meanwhile, a number of other WHO officials also highlighted the vaccine gap amid Europe’s Covid-19 surge.
According to him, although the supply of vaccines in Europe is abundant, the spread and level of vaccination is not evenly distributed.
“There may be many vaccines available, but vaccine absorption has not been evenly distributed,” WHO’s head of emergencies, Michael Ryan, said at a news conference in Geneva Thursday (4/11).
Ryan also called on European authorities to close the Covid-19 vaccination gap.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said countries that had immunized more than 40% of their population should stop temporarily and donate their doses to developing countries that have not vaccinated their citizens with the first dose.
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