Coronavirus, WHO: “Serious contagion situation in Europe, we need to learn from Sweden”

The alarm sounds about the seriousness of the situation in Europe, where almost weekly now they have overcome those reported when the pandemic it peaked in Europe for the first time in March ”. Regarding the containment of new infected in the last period, we must learn from Swedenand insist on 14 days for the quarantine period. L ‘World Health Organization intervenes through the voice of its director, Hans kluge, which remembers the case numbers COVID-19 last week: there were more than 300 thousand in total Europehe said, “and more than half of the EU countries reported an increase in cases of more than 10% in the last 2 weeks. In 7 of these countries, recently reported cases more than doubled in the same period ”.

He then pointed out that “in spring and at the beginning of summer we could see the impact of the strict measures taken. Our efforts, our sacrifices, have been paid. In June, the cases reached the minimum historical“The numbers of the diffusion of SARS-CoV-2 “In September, however, they should serve as alarm for all of us: while these numbers reflect better testability, they also show alarming transmission rates across the region. ” Europe, he continued, “4,893,614 cases of COVID-19 and 226,524 deaths. “Heavy numbers, which” say only part of the history: the impact on our mental health, on ours economy, in our means of subsistence and in our society it was huge ”. Regarding age, “although we have seen a increase in cases Among the oldest age groups, 50-64 and 65-79 years, in the first week of September the highest percentage continues to be between 25-49 years“.

The case of Sweden – With Kluge the WHO official also spoke Catherine Smallwood that during the instructions online praised the Sweden, whose antiemergency shutdown it was also criticized by experts and by the state epidemiologist himself Anders Tegnell. “We must recognize – he said Small wood – that he Sweden has avoided the increase in cases “in the last period” that is occurring in other state, particularly in Europe western, and I think there are lessons to be learned from the Swedish approach, particularly in the sustainability and the participation of the citizens“.

But, beyond the contingency that reveals a smaller number of new infected than the Scandinavian neighbors, at the beginning of September the British newspaper The Telegraph recalled that the Sweden set the record for victims of COVID-19 with 5,832 deaths (its one population 10 million inhabitants, many of them in retirement homes), “More than six times more than those of Denmark (627 dead, with a population of 5.8 million) and Norway (264, with a population of 5.4 million) together ”. It should also be noted that Stockholm is doing less tampons (1.2 per thousand people) of what they are doing Copenhagen (5.9) e Oslo (2.2). A lower level of proof that would help narrow the case curve in the country that has always focused on achieving herd immunity. Which, in addition, was not met in the objective that the health authorities had set.

Quarantine – Small wood finally added that “our position on the quarantine of 14 days continues to be so “in the interests of”patients who have been exposed to coronavirus“. The determination of the period” is based on the period of incubation and of transmission disease “and we would change it” just in case things changed from the point of view scientific, which has not happened so far, “he emphasized.

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