- Thirty European countries have seen an increase in the number of new cases accumulated in the past two weeks.
- The upsurge is, in particular, observed in Germany, Poland, Portugal or Spain.
The World Health Organization is again concerned for Europe. And she makes it known. The number of cases of new coronavirus is on the rise in Europe, warned Thursday the World Health Organization, which warns of the state of health systems, already under pressure, if this post-containment upsurge is not mastered.
"Last week, Europe saw an increase in the number of weekly cases for the first time in months (...) 30 countries have seen an increase in the number of new cases accumulated in the past two weeks," said the director. from the WHO European branch, Hans Kluge, at a press conference broadcast online from Copenhagen.
"In eleven of these countries, the acceleration of transmission has led to a very significant upsurge which, if not controlled, will push healthcare systems to the brink once again in Europe", he said. he continued, without naming a country or providing national figures. According to the organization, the region registers daily nearly 20,000 new cases and more than 700 new deaths.
Prompt interventions are encouraged
Hans Kluge also praised the "rapid" reaction of countries like Poland, Germany, Spain and Israel to the outbreak of new cases in "schools, coal mines and food production circles" those last weeks. "When new clusters of cases emerged, they were brought under control by rapid and targeted interventions," he said.
Germany announced on Tuesday for the first time a local reconfiguration which concerns more than 600,000 people. The cause: the appearance of a major outbreak of contamination from the largest slaughterhouse in Europe, in North Rhine-Westphalia (west).
The European branch of the WHO which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and includes 53 countries as heterogeneous as Russia and Andorra, has more than 2.5 million official cases, according to the organization.
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