Europe will see 230,000 people die of Covid in the next three months

Europe could record 236,000 additional deaths due to Covid-19 pandemic until December 1 alerted the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), who is concerned about the stagnation of the vaccination rate.

“Last week, the death toll in the region increased by 11%, with a reliable projection which predicts 236,000 deaths in Europe by December 1 “, which will be added to the 1.3 million deaths recorded so far in the Old Continent, said Hans Kluge.

Of the region’s 53 member states, 33 reported a more than 10% increase in the incidence of cases in two weeks, he said, as the vaccination rate declined. “Over the past six weeks ‘this rate’ has fallen by 14% due to a lack of access to vaccines in some countries and a lack of vaccine acceptance in others.”stressed Kluge, who urged to increase production capacity and share doses.

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Although three-quarters of health workers across Europe are vaccinated, in some countries in the region it is only 10%, according to the WHO. According to data from this organization, in eight months, approximately 850 million doses They were administered in EU: 58.7% of its inhabitants, or 262.3 million people, are fully vaccinated.

Para Kluge “It is crucial that the population agrees to be vaccinated”, especially as health and social measures have been relaxed in several places. “Skepticism about vaccines and the denial of science prevent stabilizing this crisis, they serve no one,” he added.

The pandemic does not give up

• As of August 31, the coronavirus had killed more than 4.5 million since the start of the pandemic. A total of 4,500,620 people have died from the disease since the first official cases of the virus were recorded in China in December 2019.
• The pandemic has killed many more people in 2021 than in 2020, since 2.6 million deaths from the coronavirus have been recorded since January, for just under 1.9 million for the whole of 2020.
• Currently, there are 10,000 deaths every day worldwide, a figure well below the world record reached in January 2021 (with an average of 14,800 deaths per day), but 30% higher than the figures for the beginning of the boreal summer. (7,800 cases at the beginning of July).

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