High risk of autumn Covid surge in Europe despite drop in infections, says WHO
Source: The Guardian
The warning came as new case numbers continued to plunge in most of the continent, falling in some areas to their lowest levels since August, and multiple governments, including France and Germany, relaxed restrictions further.
Urging people and governments to exercise caution and common sense over the summer, the WHO Europes regional director, Hans Kluge, said on Thursday that community transmission was still widespread and would continue as travel and social gatherings increased.
Weve been here before, Kluge said. Last summer, cases gradually rose in younger age groups, then moved into older age groups, leading to a devastating loss of life in the autumn and winter of 2020. Lets not make that mistake again.
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peppertree
(21,627 posts)South America has been a good canary in the coal mine on this.
As soon as cooler fall temperatures arrived in March - and children went back to school - the number of new cases began to skyrocket again.
True, they had these highly-contagious Andes and Manaus strains - but what they're going through should serve as fair warning to everyone else.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)as the variants spread indoors in air conditioned spaces this summer
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)progree
(10,904 posts)Last 14 days is actually 7 day average ending June 9 compared to 7 day average ending May 26. A 131% increase is a 2.31 fold increase.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/united-kingdom-covid-cases.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html
Their daily new case rate is 8.8 per 100,000
compare to U.S. 4.5 per 100,000
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)The Delta variant is going to do a lot of harm. Everyone has been warning us about it this past week.