Top vacation spots in Europe are experiencing a new uptick in Covid cases as nervous British visitors are forewarned of ‘high levels’ across the continent this summer.
After months of decreased virus fears, France, Greece, and Italy are among the areas where infections are starting to spread.
More than two years after the pandemic’s debut, the World Health Organization urged nations to keep an eye on the spread as cases surged in the last month.
The countries with the greatest incidence rates were Austria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, and Portugal, with instances increasing in practically all of the other countries in the region.
Europe is currently seeing 500 deaths per day, roughly the same rate as during the summer of 2020, after recording between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths per day throughout the majority of the winter.
According to WHO Europe regional director Hans Kluge, “the virus will transmit at high levels over the summer” as a result of governments in the European region lifting the social controls that were previously in place.
‘Just because governments stop looking for it, this infection won’t disappear. It continues to expand, to change, and to claim human lives.
Due to the increase, officials in France have now’recommended’ that people return to wearing face masks, but they refrained from enforcing stringent regulations.
Every day, more than 1,000 Covid patients are admitted to hospitals in France, but government spokeswoman Olivia Gregoire said there are no plans to reinstitute strict regulations.
The French people are tired of limitations, she claimed.
People will act appropriately, we are sure of that.
The pandemic is accelerating once more despite the mild weather, said to Dr. Benjamin Davido of the Raymond-Poincaré hospital west of Paris.
The new Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, which are 10% to 15% more contagious, are what are providing the virus an extra boost.
With infections reaching a peak of 2,788 per million people last month, Portugal has had the largest wave in Europe this summer, but rates are once again declining.
Despite the growing cases, Greece’s health minister stated last week that limitations may be re-instituted by autumn due to the influx of tourists.
According to Dimosthenis Sarigiannis, a professor of Environmental Engineering at Aristotle University, the nation recorded more than 11,000 infections yesterday, and the number is anticipated to peak at 25,00 by the middle of the month.
Following a spike in the past two weeks, Italy now has a million active cases of the virus, with eight of its 21 regions being classified as “high risk.”
Since the R-rate has been steadily increasing over the past four weeks and is currently at 1.3, the virus is moving around.
For those who face special health concerns, new regulations have been implemented that require mask wear in the workplace.
Additionally, employees whose temperatures are higher than 37.5 degrees Celsius will be asked to stay at home.
The 53 nations in the WHO European zone are already registering just under 500,000 cases per day, up from roughly 150,000 cases per day at the end of May as the milder but more contagious Omicron sub-variant BA.5 spreads throughout the continent.
We expect that the robust vaccination campaigns the majority of member states have put in place, along with past illness, will help us avoid the more serious consequences that we saw earlier in the epidemic, according to Kluge.
But, he emphasized, “our recommendations stand.”
People with respiratory symptoms were advised by the WHO to isolate themselves, stay up to date on their vaccines, and wear masks in busy settings.
Additionally, Kluge asked member nations to continue conducting viral tests.
In order to see patterns of transmission and viral evolution, we must continue searching for the virus, according to Kluge.
Additionally, he urged nations to raise their vaccination rates.
High population immunity and decisions made to reduce risk to older individuals, he said, are crucial to averting additional mortality this summer.
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