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The second spin of COVID-19 reaches Western Europe

  • Dark brown has been imposed on the map of Europe: except the Nordic countries of Scandinavia and the shores of the Baltic Sea, Germany and Greece, all the other countries are painted in full or virtually in color indicating that the spread of COVID-19 has left 240 new positive in 14 days or more. But the widespread increase in deaths is even more serious than the number of infections. This situation has caused the majority of EU Member States to have adopted containment measures and other drastic measures.  

30 October 2020 - 06:22
COVID-19aren hedadura Europan 2020ko urriaren 28aren aurreko 14 egunetan. (Irudia: ECDC)
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The European Centre for Prevention and Control (ECDC) will soon need to enrich with more colours the painting palette it uses in Western Europe to reflect the extension of COVID-19. Apart from the Scandinavian countries, the three Baltic countries, Germany and Greece, everything else has been blackened in dark brown in a short time. It is a colour that is added to countries where in 14 days 240 or more cases have been detected among 100,000 people, including both those who have exactly 250, those who have more than 500 (e.g. CAV) or more than 1,000, as is the case in Navarre.

Extension of COVID-19 in Europe last week, 14 days before 21 October 2020. (Image: ECDC)

With data from 28 October, ECDC statistics show that Belgium is now the country with the most cases of contagion, 1,498 (compared to 932 of 21 October) cumulated in the previous 14 days, following: Czech Republic with 1,481 (formerly 1,066), Luxembourg with 916 (formerly 413), Slovenia with 778 (formerly 425), Netherlands with 771 (formerly 595), France with 680 (formerly 453), Spain with 486 (formerly 360)... On that day in the Basque Country the CAV had accumulated 547 and Navarre 1,159.

But even more serious is the increase in deaths. Among the 100,000 inhabitants, the majority of the population in the last 14 days has died in the Czech Republic: 14.7, compared to 8.5 a week ago. Belgium with 7.6 (formerly 3.7), Hungary with 6 (formerly 4.2), Romania with 5.6 (formerly 4.4), Spain with 4.4 (formerly 3.8), Poland with 4.3 (formerly 2.8), France with 4.1 (formerly 2.4), United Kingdom with 3.8 (formerly 2.5)... As far as the Basque Country is concerned, no mortality rates per 100,000 inhabitants have been detected.

COVID-19 infections and deaths in Western Europe in the 14 days prior to October 28, 2020. (Image: ECDC)

In the event of the accounts of the deaths during the entire COVID-19 pandemic from March to today, the table we have brought between these lines gathers the absolute deaths accumulated by each of the countries of Western Europe. On the contrary, the figure that best reflects the number of deaths (deaths per million inhabitants) can be found in the statistical services Worldometers. Together the two, and apart from the tiny San Marino and Andorra, Belgium is the most affected by the coronavirus with 951 deaths per million (11 170 in total) and Spain with 758 (35 466), United Kingdom with 672 (45 675), Italy with 627 (37 905), Sweden with 585 (5 927), France with 535. As for Euskal Herria, the Berria newspaper is the one that bears most of the national accounts and 2,840 Basque citizens have died in its accounts throughout the pandemic, considering that Euskal Herria has 3.17 million inhabitants in total 895 per million.


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