The graph that explains the third wave in Europe and anticipates the impact it could have on Argentina

Despite the advance of vaccination campaigns against coronavirus in Europe, the new variants mark a contagion rate that worries and there is already talk of a resounding third wave. However, the mortality and hospitalizations decreased significantly compared to the previous epidemic, and allow the “new normal” to continue to progress.

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In the countries that make up the European Union, contagions of COVID-19 increased by 38% last week. The Delta strain He is primarily responsible for this situation, according to experts around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the variant initially detected in India, is much more contagious than those identified so far and is found in at least 85 countries.

Although the Americas continues to top the list of pandemic deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (of the 3,911,479 people worldwide who have died from the virus, 1,878,358 have died from the virus. produced in America), daily positive cases rose again last week in Europe.

Despite this, a peculiarity of this wave is that it has lower mortality and hospitalizations. This would respond to the care that continues to be supported in the health sector, and in particular by vaccination campaigns, which succeeded in immunizing a good part of the population with the arrival of summer.

the UK overcome the barrier of 25,000 cases on average in the last 7 days. Nearly double the wave of last fall, it accounts for a third of hospitalized patients and five times fewer deaths.

At SpainThanks to current statistics, citizens are already allowed to walk outside or go to the beach without wearing chin straps, despite the fact that some people still do not dispense with this element to go out.

The curve of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in Italy, one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in 2020, it also continues to decline. Friday they reported 1899, compared to 2027 the day before.

Another country on the way to a return to normal is France. The death rate has dropped significantly and since last week wearing the chinstrap is no longer compulsory in outdoor spaces, except in certain circumstances such as mass gatherings, stadiums or busy places. At Iceland authorities directly lifted restrictions such as social distancing, according to the local health ministry.

On the other hand, while several countries report a more stable situation, others, as in the case of Russia, they are not having the best of their time. The city of Saint PETERSBOURG Friday recorded the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, in March of last year. Authorities reported 107 dead in one day, exceeding for the first time Moscow, capital and epicenter of the health crisis.

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In addition, a region in central Russia suspended vaccination for two days on Saturday due to a shortage of doses, despite being a producer of Sputnik V. It reported its largest daily increase in infections since mid-January, with 21,665 new positives.