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Na video conference with the Public Health Committee of the European Parliament, Andrea Ammon indicated that the most recent data shows that, “apparently, the initial transmission wave has already reached its peak, with an overall decrease” in the number of infection in the countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area plus the United Kingdom, and at present “There is only one country with an increase in incidence and four without substantial differences.”
Urged by MEPs nominate interested countries, director European Center for Disease Control (ECDC, the acronym in English) specified that the country that still experiences an upward curve in the incidence of transmission is Bulgaria, while the other four countries “without substantial differences” in the incidence of transmission in the last 14 days are Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
In his speech, the director from the agency with headquarters in the swedish city of Solna argued that in the process of deconfiguration beginning to happen across Europe due to the decreased incidence of transmission of the new coronavirus, there must be “a management of people’s expectations”.
“This is a marathon, not a sprint. You have probably heard this, which does not mean it is not true. People’s expectations regarding the situation of the pandemic and the duration of the effects it will continue to have on their lives for the foreseeable future must be managed. This is not going to end soon, and people must mentally prepare for it. In the same sense, we cannot let our guard down during the progressive lifting of “restrictive measures,” he argued.
“People should be constantly reminded that this virus will not go away until we have a vaccine,” he added later.
Worldwide, according to a report by the news agency. AFPthe pandemic of greedy-19 has already caused more than 245 thousand deaths and infected More than 3.4 million people in 195 countries and territories. More than a million patients were considered cured.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (67,674) and the most cases of infection confirmed (more than 1.1 million), but by region Europe is the most affected, registering more than 143 thousand deaths among more than 1.5 million cases, with four European countries appearing at the top of the list with more deaths after the United States: Italy (28,884 deaths, more than 210 thousand cases), States United (28,446 deaths, more than 186 thousand cases), Spain (25,428 deaths, more than 218 thousand cases) and France (24,895 deaths, more than 168 thousand cases).
In Portugal, 1,043 people died of the 25,282 confirmed as infected, and there are 1,689 cases recovered, according to the Address-General health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of Decemberin Wuhan, a city in central China.
To combat pandemic, governments sent 4.5 billion people to their homes (more than half of the world’s population), closed non-essential trade and drastically reduced air traffic, paralyzing sectors of the world economy.
Faced with a decrease in new patients in intensive care and contagion, some countries have begun to develop plans to reduce confinement and in some cases to alleviate various measures, which is happening today in Portugal and in other European countries.
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