Coronavirus: The battle in Europe against the “Delta” variant is unequal

They started to rise again infections from coronavirus in Europe, after two and a half months of case reduction. This is due mainly due to the “Delta” variant strain in Great Britain and Russia, where it causes new outbreaks of the epidemic, according to today’s count of the French Agency based on official reports.

With 20,400 daily infections in the last seven days in Russia (+ 25% in a week) and 16,400 in the UK (+ 70%), the two countries are at the same time currently accounting for the most cases Europe, but both where infections are growing at the fastest rate among those recording more than 1,000 cases per day.

Due to the situation in these two countries, Infections in Europe are starting to rise, with 56,800 new cases a day this season, 21% more than a week ago. Between June 12 and 18, the index had reached its lowest level on a continental scale since mid-September, with 46,000 daily cases.

In several other European countries, among those that have been hit hardest since the pandemic hit the continent in January 2020, the virus continues to decline, according to the APE-MPE. 1,820 new daily cases were recorded in France in the last seven days (-23% compared to the previous week), 714 in Italy (-35%) and 650 in Germany (-31%).

The death toll is also rising overall in Europe, although later: pAlmost 1,100 deaths are recorded today daily, 8% increase in one week, but those numbers remain well below those at the peak of the continental pandemic in January (more than 5,700 deaths a day).

Russia accounts for more than half of all new deaths in the region, with almost 600 deaths a day on average over the past seven days (+ 33% compared to last week). In the UK, despite almost doubling the number of new deaths in two weeks (from ten daily to 17 in the previous week), the death toll is currently far short of its January peak of almost 1,250 people. they died every day.