Covid-19: new wave threatens Europe, where the desire to be vaccinated again is decreasing. Portugal maintains a downward trend
Experts warn that new subvariants of Covid-19 could build a new wave across Europe as temperatures drop. For now, according to INSA, Portugal seems to be the only country on the continent with a growing trend
Covid-19 cases are a increase in several countrieswhat is leading public health experts to admit that a new wave may be emerging on the Old Continenteven as temperatures drop and fatigue and confusion over the types of vaccines available can carry out immunization exercises.
World Health Organization data released this wednesday shows cases in the European Union reached 1.5 million last week, up 8% from the previous week, although it also saw a dramatic drop in the number of tests carried out.
According to the most recent data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the joint notification rate of new cases of covid-19 in Europe among people over 65 years of age increased by 14% compared to the previous week. “Increases were observed in 19 of the 26 countries that reported data on this indicator. The aggregate rate has been increasing for weeks”, says the ECDC, noting that there were also increases in the notification of new cases in three consecutive weeks “cases during three weeks”.
Comparatively, according to the Ricardo Jorge National Institute of Health, Portugal seems to be the only country in Europe with a growing trend, although the notification rate of new cases found is “high”. “In Europe, Portugal has a 14-day cumulative notification rate between 240 and 479.9 per 100,000 inhabitants and an R
In Portugal, as in the rest of Europe, the BA. 5 of the Omicron variant are being analyzed by scientists, but the new ones highlighted continue to gain ground and “hundreds of new Omicron types are being analyzed by scientists”, WHO officials assured this week.
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the WHO still indicates that the numbers of hospitalizations in several European Union countries have increased in recent weeks. An example of this is the case of Italy. In the week of October 4, according to agreements of patients with covid-19 with symptoms of jumps by almost 32%, while compared to the country of intensive care missions, compared to the previous week, with the data compiled by independent scientific foundation gimbe.
During the same week, hospital admissions of people infected with covid-19 in the UK saw a 45% increase compared to the previous week.
Vaccines adapted to the Omicron variant were launched in Europe in September, with two vaccines targeting BA.1, as well as the BA.4/5 subvariants released with the already existing first-generation vaccines.
In July 2022, given the res medical vaccines recommended between a second recommendation of care for Covid-19 people, the ECDC and the European Covid-19 Medicines Reinforcement Agency for people with vaccinated health conditions between 79 years and for high-risk health conditions. However, public health experts told Reuters, this has increased confusion among users and worn out the desire to get more dose, which may even be the fourth or fifth.
“Those who may be less concerned about their risk, message that is over, with the teacher that they can reduce public health, Martin McKee in the community, it’s a pandemic in London”, Martin McKee. School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “So, on balance, accept that people’s willingness to be vaccinated is a little lower.”
Pend, medicine in London, at King’s, other elements that have disturbed the professor of a month of the last pharmaceutical age: “A very high age of the population and they can have an erroneous proportion of covid episodes in the last months and they can also have an erroneous proportion of covid episode in the last few months and they may have mistakenly felt the covid episode in the last few months and they may also have had an erroneous proportion of covid episode in the last few months.
Since the beginning of the launch of new vaccines 40 million doses of vaccines in the European Union from September, about 5 members of the European Union, from September and according to NTech States, according to NTech States.
The same or September indicates, however, that the doses in the week are only between 1 million and 1, in the month of September compared to 6 million data compared to 6 weeks during the same period of 1 million and 1 September compared to 6 weeks during the same period. do ECDC.