Europe struggles with the Omicron surge
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An ambulance waits outside St Thomas's Hospital in London on Monday, December 20, 2021 (illustrative image).
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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow
2 min
With contamination records every day, in several European countries sickness absences and dysfunctions are starting to be felt, especially in the health sector.
In the United Kingdom, nearly one in ten caregivers cannot come to work: either because they are positive for Covid-19, or if they are in contact.
Faced with this situation, hospitals are starting to have difficulty managing.
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And while the peak of hospitalizations in London is expected in mid-January, the government is trying somehow to take measures,
Marie Billon
.
And with an overheating health sector, dozens of operations are put on hold, but also long treatments or even prevention or screening programs suspended.
In Romania, it is people with AIDS who find themselves penalized
. Eastern Europe accounts for three quarters of the HIV cases diagnosed in Europe. And since the outbreak of the pandemic the care of these patients but also their screening has become more and more difficult in Romania with overwhelmed hospitals.
Benjamin Ribout
's report
to the Romanian Anti-AIDS Association in
Bucharest
.
In Turkey,
drugs are running out
. Collateral effect of the economic difficulties and the monetary crisis with which the country is struggling but not only. The Covid 19 pandemic has caused an increase in the price of raw materials and therefore also the price of drugs. In
Istanbul
, the explanations of
Anne Andlauer
.
While the pandemic does not care about borders,
how can we better communicate between fire and police services in the event of a disaster, attack or emergency?
The question arose very concretely this summer during catastrophic flooding in
Wallonia
and it was clear that in the era of 4G, the walkie talkies used by emergency services were absolutely not compatible with 'one country to another.
At least not yet, because a European project is trying to change the situation.
This is the report by our colleague from RTBF
Myriam Baele
.
Vincent Theval
's music chronicle
:
Ponos Kriffos
by Marina Satti.
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