It had taken nine months to find the first 5 million infected with the coronavirus in Europe; it took just five weeks – from the last of September to yesterday – to find another 5 million, and exceed the quota of 10 million total infections in the Continent (including Russia, for all official counts) most affected by the second wave, on the over 46 million around the world.
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The October that colored the map of central Europe in red, reporting the national lockdowns from Germany to France, from the United Kingdom to (almost all) Portugal, which got worse: in the last week the new cases were 1.6 million, almost half of the 3.3 reported worldwide . Thus in the Old Continent, where only 10% of the global population lives, the sick since February have been over one in five on the whole planet.
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Hospitals are filling up everywhere: in Belgium, the country with the highest rate of infections, experts fear they still have a little more than a week before the beds are finished; in the Czech Republic, where the lethality of the virus is very high (over 2,800 deaths since September, in a country that has the population of Lombardy and has changed three health ministers in six weeks) field hospitals and emergency respirators are already in operation sent by the EU. Since last Sunday, Europe has counted over 16,000 deaths from Covid-19: almost double the previous 7 days.
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And in addition to the victims, there are the increasingly widespread protests of those who think they can not get through another closing period: despite the curfew on Saturday night in Madrid, in a weekend of protests throughout Spain against the extension for another six months of the state of emergency by the Snchez government – which allows regions to declare new lockdowns – there have been riots, clashes and looting, with 32 arrests and 12 injured in the capital. And while in the UK there are three days left before the confinement begins, Minister Michael Gove already warns that it could even last longer than the expected four weeks, depending on what the data say on 2 December.
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At the moment, the numbers say that the contagion (along with the tracking) got out of hand almost everywhere. And that in many states the percentage of positive swabs, despite the increase in tests, is very high: in the Netherlands, which tests fewer inhabitants than Italy, last week reached 29%.
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November 1, 2020 (change November 1, 2020 | 22:47)
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