The European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakides, has issued this warning in presenting the statistics and maps that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) disseminates weekly with the photograph that the development of the coronavirus has left in the previous days: "All the countries of the European Union must organise the necessary measures promptly and immediately as soon as the first signs of the pandemic are felt. This could be the last opportunity to avoid a situation like the one we live in in March."

The map released on Thursday by the ECDC shows very significantly how the situation has worsened throughout Western Europe. Compared with the previous week and more with that of two weeks ago – see below in this news – Spain maintains gravity, in all communities except Galicia which has gone lighter, in France there has been a significant increase in the regions that deserve a dark colour, in those bad figures there is the whole of Czech territory, also half of Belgium, and now they have a complicated situation that represents the dark united kingdom in several regions of Europe. One of the few that has improved is Romania.

Spain collects 320 new coronavirus infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the previous 14 days, Czech Republic 229, France 204, Belgium 139, Netherlands 132, Hungary 117, Austria 108... They are better off with Poland 25 and Germany 27. Compared to these, the Basque Autonomous Community – according to the weekly report published by Osakidetza on Thursday – has recorded 320 cases in the last two weeks, the same figure as the Spanish average. As the number of darker colors on the ECDC maps is 120 cases, the degree of severity of each rising region is not sufficiently revealed.

With data from the CAV and Navarra, COVID-19 has killed 72 people in Hegoalde last week, according to Berria. The latter has been the worst week of the second heat wave that has been consolidating since July.