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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