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The number of Corona infections since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded one hundred million in Europe, including the Caucasus. In the 52 countries and territories from the Atlantic coast to Azerbaijan and Russia, 100,074,753 infections with the corona virus were reported by the evening of New Year’s Day, according to a calculation by the AFP news agency based on information from authorities.
That’s more than one-third of the 288,279,803 corona infections reported worldwide since the pandemic broke out in late 2019. In the past seven days alone, more than 4.9 million infections were reported in the Europe region – 59 percent more than the previous week. 17 of the 52 countries and territories surpassed their previous highs of Corona infections within a week.
France, for example, reported more than one million new cases last week, nearly 10 percent of all its detected cases since the pandemic began. The countries with the world’s highest infection rates per 100,000 population are all in Europe, with Denmark leading the way with a seven-day incidence of 2,045, followed by Cyprus with 1,969 new Corona infections per 100,000 population, and Ireland with 1,964.
Corona deaths in Europe, on the other hand, are down. Last week, an average of 3,413 infected people died per day, seven percent fewer than in the previous week. The peak had been reached in January 2021 with 5,735 Corona deaths per day.
The Corona vaccination rate in Europe is slightly above the global average. According to the Our World in Data website, 65 percent of Europeans have received at least one vaccination shot, and 61 percent are fully vaccinated. Globally, these proportions are 58 and 49 percent, respectively.
— source: orf.at/picture: Image by Satheesh Sankaran from Pixabay
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