Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Medicine News

Global Covid Cases and Deaths Rise for the First Time in Two Months, WHO Says (cnbc.com) 184

Covid-19 cases and deaths are climbing across the world for the first time in two months as the virus surges across Europe, World Health Organization officials said at a briefing Thursday. From a report: After weeks of decline, infections in Europe have risen over the last three consecutive weeks, even as cases fall in every other region across the world, according to WHO. There were nearly 3 million new Covid cases reported worldwide for the week ended Sunday, an increase of 4% from the previous seven days, according to WHO's most recent epidemiological update. Globally, Covid cases had fallen 4% the week before, despite a 7% increase across Europe over that same period. Cases in Europe surged by 18% over the last week alone, WHO data shows.

"The global number of reported cases and deaths from Covid-19 is now increasing for the first time in two months, driven by an ongoing rise in Europe that outweighs declines in other regions," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "It's another reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over." Covid has surged sharply in Czechia and Hungary, where the seven-day average of cases swelled more than 100% from the previous week as of Wednesday, according to a CNBC analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University. Croatia, Denmark, Norway and Poland each recorded weekly average case increases of more than 70% on Wednesday, JHU found.

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Global Covid Cases and Deaths Rise for the First Time in Two Months, WHO Says

Comments Filter:
  • I imagine Denmark and Norway was a great surprise.

    • The Nordic weather has gone sucky and people begin to cluster indoors.
      November-December showed a big surge here in Sweden last year. This year we have vaccines, but we also have the Delta strain and few restrictions. Time will tell what the combined effect is.
    • by tomhath ( 637240 )
      That country is full of Trumpers. At least that's who gets blamed in the US for every COVID death.
  • about as far as we can throw em.

  • by phantomfive ( 622387 ) on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:57PM (#61937069) Journal

    The epidemic these days is mostly people who are unvaccinated. Among the vaccinated who get sick, it's mostly due to people who are either immunocompromised in some way, or got their vaccine after getting exposed to covid (for example, their spouse got covid so the next day they decided to get the vaccine).

    • Whlle true... it's also a smattering of breakthru cases from parents who live with unvaccinated children and breakthru cases as resistance from both vaccination and infection drops.

      However, I think in most areas populations are almost at herd immunity levels. For example- in UK. the cases are focused in 2-19 year olds (about 2% in each year group) and then 20-54 (about 1%). Less than 1% per year for 55 to 80+.

      I'm seeing what should be superspreading events all over the place in Texas now. I guess we'l

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      The epidemic these days is mostly people who are unvaccinated. Among the vaccinated who get sick, it's mostly due to people who are either immunocompromised in some way, or got their vaccine after getting exposed to covid (for example, their spouse got covid so the next day they decided to get the vaccine).

      Also amongst the vaccinated, those who do contract COVID have less severe and shorter cases. Hence the unvaccinated are inordinately represented amongst hospitalisations, ICU cases and deaths.

      The jury is still out on the impact the vaccine has had on the spread of the virus (although most authorities on the subject state it's had a suppressive effect, just not as much as we'd like) but the reduction in your risk of dying is significant.

  • Things are so bad in Moscow proper, and Russia in general, that only essential businesses such as grocery stores and pharmacies are allowed to be open. Everyone else must stay at home for nine days [bbc.com].

    Things are so bad in Russia they've been following the lead of DeathSantis by fudging the number of deaths. "Officially" the number is around 230,000 dead. However, Russia's own statistics agency puts the true number above 400,000.

    Needless to say, Russia has the least number of people vaccinated, percentage wise,

    • by dpilot ( 134227 )

      I wonder about this. Presumably part of vaccine hesitancy in the US was due to Russian disinformation spread over social media. Though at this point they're probably a minority source of disinformation, we're shooting ourselves in the foot quite well on our own.

      However it makes me wonder if their disinformation leaked to their populace and is partly responsible for their poor vaccination rate.

    • by fche ( 36607 )

      > Everyone else must stay at home for nine days [bbc.com].

      Hey that's child's play. Here in North America, we stayed at home for just two weeks to flatten the curve.

      • by dryeo ( 100693 )

        Here in N. America, never had to stay home, a few businesses had to close or in the case of restaurants, only do take out and most had to operate under half capacity (according to fire regulations).

      • Didn't have to stay home. It was asked that people stay home but it was a very soft quarantine- especially in conservative areas.

      • > Everyone else must stay at home for nine days [bbc.com].

        Hey that's child's play. Here in North America, we stayed at home for just two weeks to flatten the curve.

        For very small values of 'stayed home'.

        I'm shocked it didn't work, shocked I tell you.

    • and will probably get worse, people are simply not vaccinating or even buying fake vaccine certificates.
      All of this I guess come from the government making a crap ass job with the vaccine they created, which they barely tested, and forced onto the population, then tried to sell to other countries, which most didn't want because the testing was not that good and there were several other options, then they decided to whip out the fake new propaganda on the other vaccines and end up hitting themselves internal

    • Actually Ukraine is the least vaccinated country in Europe, and not just against covid. Russia is sixth worst.

  • don't call this vaccine fade

  • https://www.nytimes.com/intera... [nytimes.com]

    There goes that narrative.

  • by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:47PM (#61937411)

    Appparently, with all the social distancing, nixing of large gatherings and people wearing masks, there is a strong possibility one of the four major flu virus lines may be extinct [nature.com]. The key word being possibility as the CDC is still on the lookout for this line.

    But wait, there's more! While performing a similar number of tests, there was 99% drop in influenza detection. And why might that be?

    Behavioural changes (social distancing, mask wearing and hygiene measures) and travel and movement restrictions are thought to be the major factors driving the reduction in influenza incidence, which was also observed for other common respiratory infections such as respiratory syncytial virus.

    • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Maxo-Texas ( 864189 )

      I used to have 3-4 colds per year.

      I haven't had a cold since Nov 2018.

      And I *like* wearing a mask in the winter now. My nose doesn't hurt. Plus my handwashing is much much better than it used to be.

      I lost about 7 friends who turned out to really be acquaintances but picked up 4 higher quality friends.

      It was the end of my DND game- but honestly- I probably should have called it back in 2017.

      • I'm sorry for your loss - acquaintances has quaint in it, so not all bad - and happy for your gains. Regarding the cold however, there's plenty of it going around still, indicating how much more infectious some viruses can be. Delta isn't all that. But the common cold is either a Rhino virus (2/3) or a Corona virus. With every duplication, there's a chance SARS-CoV-2 goes into the direction of being more infectious. Since the vaccinations don't stop infection and transmission, vaccinating everybody isn't go
    • Endangered [xkcd.com].

  • We're going to win so much, you're going to get TIRED of WINNING!

  • No Date appears in the story. How old is it? Sounds like Propaganda to me!

    • No Date appears in the story. How old is it? Sounds like Propaganda to me!

      There was this at the very top...
      PUBLISHED THU, OCT 28 20211:51 PM EDTUPDATED THU, OCT 28 20216:34 PM EDT
      And this is the first paragraph...

      Global numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths are increasing for the first time in two months as the virus surges across Europe, World Health Organization officials said at a briefing Thursday.

      If anyone can figure it out. Please let us both know.

  • Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • We've decided to forego accidentally giving grandma COVID and are doing 'the holidays' with family members in our current exposure circle.

    Not the same, of course. Who wants to be the one to give a preventable disease to someone who survived Scarlet Fever with 1 kidney.

    Irony is only funny when people don't get sick :(

Genius is ten percent inspiration and fifty percent capital gains.

Working...