The world health Organization (WHO) pulls the alarm signal. While the measures of déconfinement are gradually reduced across Europe, the upsurge of positive cases on the continent worries the WHO. According to the organization, the region registers on a daily basis almost 20 000 new cases and over 700 deaths.
" last week, Europe has experienced an increase in the number of cases weekly for the first time since months, [ ... ]. 30 countries have seen an increase in the number of new cases accumulated during the past two weeks, " said the director of the branch in the WHO-Europe, Hans Kluge, during a press conference streamed online from Copenhagen.
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Reconfinement in Germany
"In eleven of these countries, the acceleration of the transmission has resulted in a resurgence of the most important, if not controlled, will push health systems to the brink of bankruptcy once more in Europe," he continued, without naming countries or provide national figures. Hans Kluge has also welcomed the reaction "fast" countries, such as Poland, Germany, Spain and Israel in the face of the outbreak of new cases occurred in the schools, coal mines, and the environments of food production " in recent weeks.
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" When new groups of cases have appeared, they have been controlled by prompt interventions and targeted ", he commended. Germany had announced on Tuesday for the first time a reconfinement at the local level that affects more than 600,000 people. At issue : the emergence of an important focus of contamination in a part of the biggest slaughterhouse in Europe, the Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia, in the west of the country. The branch in the WHO-Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and includes 53 countries as disparate as Russia and Andorra, has more than 2.5 million cases official, according to the organization.
