In recent months, the continent has once again become the epicentre of the epidemic, with an increase in cases fueled by the virus’s highly transmissible Omicron strain.Over the last two years, the European region, which includes 52 countries and territories ranging from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, has registered 100,074,753 Covid-19 infections.
More than a third of the 288,279,803 cases reported worldwide since the epidemic began in late 2019 in China are represented by this figure.
Over 4.9 million European illnesses have been reported in only the last seven days, with 17 of the 52 countries or territories breaking their previous record for the most cases in a single week.
Nearly the last week, France has reported over one million new cases, accounting for 10% of all positive cases reported since the pandemic began. The world’s countries with the highest infection rate per 100,000 people were all in Europe. Denmark received the lowest score of 2,045, followed by Cyprus (1,969) and Ireland (1,964).
Over the preceding week, Europe had an average of 3,413 coronavirus deaths each day, down 7% from the previous week. In January of previous year, the average was 5,735 deaths per day.
The European continent’s population is currently, on average, more vaccinated than the global average.According to the “Our World in Data” website, 65% of Europeans are partially vaccinated, while 61% are fully vaccinated, which is higher than the global averages of 58 and 49 percent.
The World Health Organization believes that the global death toll could be two to three times greater if Covid-19-related increased mortality is factored in.
Source: AFP
