“Every day we face this challenge and this choice. “There are two ways at this crossroads: vaccination or lockdown,” Zelensky said in a televised interview with Ukrainian broadcast channel ICTV on Monday. Violence over Italy's strict Covid pass has ignited a national debate about fascism People participate in a protest against the implementation of the COVID-19 health pass, the Green Pass, in the workplace as they gather outside the entrance of the major port of Trieste, Italy, Oct. Peter Drobac, a global health expert at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School in England, told CNN.Ĭaseloads may be high in some Western Europe countries, but thanks to vaccines, Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations have remained largely flat compared to their Eastern counterparts.įrom Monday, Romania will reintroduce night curfews and make health passes mandatory for most venues, days after it recorded 19.25 deaths per million people – one of the world’s highest Covid-19 death rates per capita. The differing vaccination rates have put Europe’s East and West on two separate tracks, but what they share is case rates driven higher by the relaxation of pandemic restrictions as economies open, cold weather driving people indoors, and the highly transmissible Delta variant, now the dominant strain in the region, Dr. More than 85% of the adult population is fully vaccinated, and officials say the vast majority of hospitalized Covid-19 patients were unjabbed, Reuters reported. Belgium, alongside Ireland, is seeing one of the highest case rates in Western Europe, according to the ECDC, of 325.76 and 432.84 per 100,00 people respectively.īelgium’s Health Minister Frank Vandenbrouck told broadcaster VRT Wednesday that the country was in a fourth wave. Germany’s Covid incidence rate rose to 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants on Saturday for the first time since May.
Western Europe is also driving the rise in Covid-19 cases despite some countries enjoying near universal vaccine coverage. They have all the vaccines they need, but these EU nations are still miles behind their neighbors (Photo by Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP) (Photo by NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images) NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP via Getty Images As a fourth coronavirus wave threatens, official data show that only 15 percent of the population of 6.9 million people has been fully vaccinated, far below the EU average of 52.7 percent. It's getting close to lunchtime and a Covid-19 vaccination centre in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia is almost empty, a vivid example of the way the country's immunisation effort is hamstrung by fake news and widespread mistrust. This photograph taken on August 6, 2021, shows a healthcare worker waiting for patients at a Covid-19 vaccination centre at The Military Medical Academy in Sofia, where a variety of vaccines are available: AstraZeneca, Pfizer Biotech, Moderns and Jansen.
Only 56% of all adults have had both doses of the jab compared to the EU average of 74.6%. Last Thursday, Latvia became the first country in the European Union to impose a lockdown as the country struggles with a spike in cases amid low vaccination uptake. The suffering has been acute in Eastern Europe and Russia, battling mounting deaths and cases fueled by vaccine hesitancy that has seen coverage rates dip as low as 24%, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). This is the third consecutive week the region has recorded a rise in cases, it added. Lockdowns, spiraling cases and a vaccine divide is framing the start of Europe’s second pandemic winter, bringing chaos to eastern European countries and uncertainty to those in the West.ĭespite the widescale availability of vaccines this winter compared to the last, Europe is the only part of the world reporting an increase in new Covid-19 cases globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday.
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