Europe currently leads world with Covid case numbers and deaths

[kiwibird]

https://www.euronews.com/2021/11/10/...ntinue-to-rise

The World Health Organization's (WHO) Europe and Central Asia region is the only one in the world where COVID-19 cases and deaths are rising.

It has seen coronavirus deaths increase by 10% over the last week, WHO said.

Nearly two-thirds of all global infections were in the region, where cases rose by 7%, the body added in its weekly report
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Germany’s national disease control centre said it had recorded a record-high number of new coronavirus cases.
The Robert Koch Institute said 39,676 cases were registered on Wednesday, surpassing the previous daily record last Friday of 37,120 new cases.
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Several hospitals have said in recent days that they are again working at their limits and have ICUs so full of COVID-19 patients that they cannot admit new patients.

"We have a real emergency situation right now," Christian Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin’s Charite Hospital."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59160525

Europe is once again "at the epicentre" of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as cases soar across the continent.

At a press conference WHO Europe head Hans Kluge said the continent could see half a million more deaths by February.

He blamed insufficient vaccine take-up for the rise.

 

[kiwibird]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59160525

The most dramatic rises in fatalities have been in the past week in Russia, where more than 8,100 deaths were recorded, and Ukraine, with 3,800 deaths. Both countries have very low rates of vaccination and Ukraine announced a record 27,377 new cases in the past 24 hours.

 

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