Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia Europe is now experiencing another spike in Covid-19 cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) called there was a worrying resurgence, saying “once again Europe is the epicenter of the pandemic”.
WHO Europe, which covers 53 European and Central Asian countries, said Covid-19 had increased 55% in the past four weeks. Even the new death toll will reach 500,000 in February 2022.
“The current speed (of Covid-19 transmission) in 53 countries is very worrying,” said WHO regional director for Europe, Dr Hans Kluge in the latest press conference Thursday (4/11/2021) afternoon local time.
Which countries? Here’s a summary CNBC Indonesia:
English
The UK is still one of the countries in Europe with a high rise in Covid-19 cases. Last week, the UK’s Covid-19 cases increased by 44,985 in one day.
According to WHO records the average daily case in the UK is still in the range of 40,000 to 50,000 a day. But yesterday, Worldometers recorded 34,029 new cases.
Citing the same data there are currently 1.5 million active cases. Around 141,588 people have died due to Covid-19 in the country.
Covid-19 Russia is getting more and more rampant. According to data-gathering websites, the country’s new cases and deaths both recorded record highs.
Quotes Worldometers, Friday (11/5/2021), new cases broke the daily record high of 40,735. The same is true of deaths where the figure is 1,192.
Refers to data John Hopkins UniversityRussia’s Covid-19 cases are now an average of 38,547 a day. There are now 964,177 active cases.
This fact has led several regions in the country to say they will impose additional restrictions and extend workplace lockdowns to combat the Covid-19 spike. Previously Moscow, the Russian capital, had also imposed a partial nationwide lockdown.
In total the country has 8,714,595 cases of Covid-19. There have been 244,447 deaths since the pandemic struck in 2020.
German
One of the countries experiencing a severe increase is Germany. The Panzer Country’s Covid-19 infection even broke the record set in December 2020.
Yesterday, a new record was broken, where there were 35,806 new daily cases with 178 deaths. Currently, the total active cases are 293,938.
Earlier Health Minister Jens Spahn said that Germany was living with a pandemic where many people had not been vaccinated and there would be a 4th wave of the virus at “maximum strength”.
Quotes DW, this is not without reason. The fact is that Germany still lags behind other European countries in terms of Covid-19 vaccination.
Germany has only fully vaccinated 66.5% of its citizens. This is in contrast to Portugal, 88%, and Spain 81%.
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