Due to Covid infection rate Sweeping Europe again, Boris Johnson Speak this week “Storm clouds gather” in parts of the mainland, saying that it is not yet clear when or how serious the latest wave will “wash our coasts.”
The situation in some EU member states, especially those countries with low vaccination rates, is indeed serious.In the middle and east Europe Especially in Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands, the number of cases is soaring.
However, the British Prime Minister’s remarks and most media reports on these remarks have not found that the rolling average of daily new coronavirus cases in the UK for 7 days is still higher than the average of the 27 EU countries, and it has been the same since June. .
according to Data from OurWorldInData, The EU’s average level has quadrupled in recent weeks, from just over 110 new cases per million people per day on October 1st to 446 on Thursday.
During the same period, the daily infection rate in the UK was 505 cases per million people, almost five times the average of the 27 EU countries. After reaching a peak of nearly 700 points in late October, the ratio fell to 495 points on November 10, but has risen sharply again in the past week.
The headlines made Angela Merkel describe a lot The situation in Germany It is “dramatic”, but its infection rate is 536 parts per million, which is lower than the UK’s 581-still 30% higher than the EU-27 average.
Slovakia and Slovenia are currently the worst-hit countries in the European Union, with 7-day average rolling rates of 1,643 and 1,581 per million, respectively.
Followed by Austria-Western Europe The least vaccinated countries, 64% of the total population was vaccinated with 1,395 people, Croatia had 1,275 people, and Belgium, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands had vaccination rates above 1,000.
Other EU member states, including Ireland, Hungary, Greece and the Baltic States, also have higher infection rates than the United Kingdom. But a few-mainly those with high vaccination rates and relatively strict social distancing rules-did not.
These include France (201 infections per million people per day), Italy (138 cases) and Spain (95 cases), as well as Portugal, Finland and Sweden.Infection rate Romania and BulgariaIt used to be the most severely affected country in the EU, and it is now much lower.
WHO has stated Repeated in recent weeks The European region of its 53 countries has once again become the epicenter of the pandemic, and no one knows whether those continental countries that have kept interest rates low so far will continue to do so.
At the same time, the infection rate in the UK has climbed by about 15% in the past 10 days, and the base figure for the past six months has been higher than the European average-something the Prime Minister does not often mention.
