Eurostat data: 160,000 more deaths in Europe in three months
2020-08-03T11:25:40.121Z
Preliminary data from 24 European countries show that between March and May 2020 there were 160 thousand more deaths than the average for the same period from 2016 to 2019. Eurostat writes it on his Twitter profile, underlining how the mortality data are useful for assessing the direct and indirect effects of the daVov-19 pandemic on the European population. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Sweden and France are among the countries with the highest mortality increases. Already at the beginning of March 2020, Italy recorded a significantly higher number of deaths than in previous years, and was the first country to peak, in late March. The most marked increase in the number of deaths was in Spain, which by the beginning of April doubled the number of weekly deaths recorded compared to the same week in previous years. In early April, the deaths for France and Switzerland began to drop. For other countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Portugal, the peak increase in deaths in 2020 was reached in the week of April 6-12. However, Eurostat highlights considerable differences in deaths, not only between countries, but also between regions of the same state, between March and May 2020 (compared to the same period 2016-2019). The increases in the number of deaths have been particularly significant: in northern Italy, in the central area of Spain including Madrid, in the east of France and in the Paris region, in various Belgian and Dutch regions. The regions most affected by mortality were mainly in Italy and Spain. From 2 March to 10 May 2020, Bergamo, Cremona, Segovia, Lodi and Brescia have had deaths more than three times higher than those recorded in the same period in the previous four years. About 21 of the 25 most affected regions in the European countries analyzed are in Italy or Spain, the other regions are Haut-Rhin, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seinein France and Noordoost-Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands.
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03 August 2020 Preliminary data from 24 European countries show that between March and May 2020 there were 160 thousand more deaths than the average for the same period from 2016 to 2019. Eurostat writes on his Twitter profile, underlining how the mortality data are useful for assessing the direct and indirect effects of the daVov-19 pandemic on the European population. Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Sweden and France are among the countries with the highest mortality increases. Already at the beginning of March 2020, Italy recorded a significantly higher number of deaths than in previous years, and was the first country to peak, in late March. The most marked increase in the number of deaths was in Spain, which by the beginning of April doubled the number of weekly deaths recorded compared to the same week in previous years. In early April, the deaths for France and Switzerland began to drop. For other countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Portugal, the peak increase in deaths in 2020 was reached in the week of April 6-12. However, Eurostat highlights considerable differences in deaths, not only between countries, but also between regions of the same state, between March and May 2020 (compared to the same period 2016-2019). The increases in the number of deaths have been particularly significant: in northern Italy, in the central area of Spain including Madrid, in the east of France and in the Paris region, in various Belgian and Dutch regions. The regions most affected by mortality were mainly in Italy and Spain. From 2 March to 10 May 2020, Bergamo, Cremona, Segovia, Lodi and Brescia have had deaths more than three times higher than those recorded in the same period in the previous four years. About 21 of the 25 most affected regions in the European countries analyzed are in Italy or Spain, the other regions are Haut-Rhin, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seinein France and Noordoost-Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands.
