Summer hotspots are seeing a new wave of Covid as tourists are warned that the virus “is still claiming lives. “
Cyprus, France, Greece and Portugal are among the nations with occurrence rates.
The World Health Organization has declared that the SUB-variants BA. 4 and BA. 5 Omicron are the new wave.
The two strains of Covid, milder than the previous ones, present a mutation similar to greater transmissibility.
What is more concerning is that there are early indications that Omicron’s past infection is not opposed to BA. 4 and BA. 5.
In its weekly report, published last Wednesday, the WHO said cases in Europe exceeded 33% in one week, shortly after the Eastern Mediterranean (47%).
Nationally, Spain reported that infections increased fivefold in one week.
Italy’s number exceeds 61%, France’s 37% and Germany’s 23%.
The 53 countries in the WHO European region recently recorded only 500 000 cases per day, up from 150 000 at the end of May.
Infections in Europe have been emerging for 3 consecutive weeks, but deaths are still low.
WHO regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said the virus will continue to spread over the summer, while other people take their summer vacations.
“While countries in the European region have lifted social measures that were in place in the past, the virus will spread to the maximum during the summer,” Kluge told AFP.
“This virus won’t happen just because countries prevent it. It continues to spread, continues to change, and continues to claim lives.
“We hope that the physically powerful vaccination programmes that most Member States have implemented with a past infection will mean that we will have the most serious consequences we saw in the past in the pandemic.
“However, our rest. “
The WHO has suggested that other people with respiratory symptoms isolate themselves, as legal requirements no longer exist.
The firm suggested others keep up with their vaccinations and wear masks in crowded places.
The Covid symbol is also getting worse in the UK, as officials warned that hospital admissions may outpace those of the first wave of Omicron.
The Office for National Statistics estimates that one in 30 Britons is infected.
It said on Friday that covid infections in the UK had risen by more than a fraction of a million in a week (32%).
A total of 2. 3 million other people across the UK tested positive last week, up from 1. 7 million the previous week.
This compares to the record 4. 9 million at the peak of the Omicron BA. 2 wave in late March.
The chief executive of the UK’s Health Safety Agency (UKHSA), Dame Jenny Harries, said other people “lead general lives, but in a prudent way”.
The UKHSA is largely following the behavior of a new variant, the Omicron BA. 2. 75.
It involved experts who warned that this is a factor that “pays to monitor. “
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