The second wave of COVID-19 in Europe is deteriorating, according to the ECDC weekly map
- The statistics and maps that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publishes every Thursday on the situation have shown that the situation continues to be complicated throughout Western Europe, despite slow developments. As for the Basques, neither New Aquitaine, which includes Iparralde, nor Navarre nor the Basque Autonomous Community, have emerged from the darkest colour series painted by the ECDC.
On Thursday, 1 October, comparing the map disseminated by the ECDC seven days in advance – see chronicle “European Commission Alert for the Speed of COVID-19” – it is clear that the second wave of COVID-19 throughout Western Europe continues to worsen, even though visually it seems that the pandemic is taking more slowly than in the first wave of March-April. It is not useless, however, to warn the reader of the limitation of this map: they come in dark brown which in the last two weeks have detected 120 or more than 100,000 inhabitants.. and in this group also include the 150 cumulative cases and the more than 600, as some communities in Spain.
Taking a look at the map, almost all Spain is still in the dark brown; here it is called the attention that Asturias, so famous for its management, has also entered the dark group. Portugal is continuing to deteriorate. France is Europe’s second largest hotspot, darkening from week to week (between the Corsica regions it has managed to turn to a lighter colour). Belgium is now completely in the dark, as the Czech Republic and the many regions of the Netherlands were since last week. The United Kingdom has also made a big change to worse, including Northern Ireland, even though Scotland looks a little better and, above all, Wales. In Central and Eastern Europe, things have become more complicated in Romania and in the rest of the countries too, gloomy regions are becoming more and more abundant. Although in some degrees the severity is faster, cases are also multiplying in the northern countries. In general, Greece is the one that best faces the second wave in Europe.
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Spain collects up to 30 September 329 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Czech Republic 261, France 236, Netherlands 199, Belgium 161, Luxembourg 181, Iceland 151, Denmark 127, Hungary 124, United Kingdom 112 (all statistics can be seen on this ECDC page). Regarding deaths, Malta has suffered the most among Europeans, 3.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Spain (3.3), Romania (2.8), Czech Republic (1.6), France (1.4), Hungary (1.2), Bulgaria (1.2), Coracia (1.1)...
And the differences between regions within Spain, which almost everything is in dark brown color? According to data provided by the Ministry of Health on 28 September, most districts circulated above 120 cases that limit dark brown. The worst is in Madrid (775), followed by Navarre (683). Above 400 are Rioja (448) and Castilla-La Mancha (403). It is followed by Murcia (391), Castilla y León (384), Aragon 369, Extremadura (288), Basque Country (269)...
In the hope that it will serve to measure the speed of the evolution of the pandemic in Europe, we have placed under these lines the map that the ECDC has placed a week but two weeks ago, in order to compare it with the situation of 30 September:
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