European Third Wave
Infections ahead of injections
Changes in cases over past 2 weeks
Mostly powered by British variant
Italy up 50% (54%)
France up 1% (65.3%)
Germany up 9% (46.1%)
Netherlands up 3%
Sweden, up 6%
Estonia, up 58%
Poland, up 63%
Austria, up 63%
Hungary, up 108%
Serbia, up 29%
Greece, up 48%
Spain, down 33%
Portugal, down 49%
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/10/europe-faces-third-wave-lags-behind-vaccinations/
Italy, La Repubblica
Fear has turned into anger and exhaustion
We’re waiting for the vaccines like pioneers in a Western movie, surrounded by Indians, scanning the horizon and waiting for the Seventh Cavalry
Extensive local measures now being taken
Vincenzo De Luca, Governor of Campania
it is clear that we are in the third wave all over Italy, that it is necessary to take exceptional measures
Czech Republic
Could achieve herd immunity
UK, no third wave
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
Last week in the UK
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-cases-drop-by-a-third
COVID cases drop by a third
Based on around one million weekly reporters 7,600 recent swab tests
March 12, 2021, cases, + 5,494
Last week, cases, + 8,111
Down 32%
Prevalence, 1 in 613 in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID
UK R = 0.8
England, 0.8
Wales, 0.9
Scotland, 0.8
(Today, UK, 0.6 to 0.8)
European vaccinations progress
Germany
Used less than half of its stocks of AZ
Used a third of stocks of Moderna
3 million over 80 and high risks unvaccinated
France
Used less than three-quarters of their vaccine stocks
Belgium
Has used less than a third of its vaccine stocks
Public reluctance to take AstraZeneca
Bureaucracy and incompetence
UK, vaccination progress
Third of adult population now vaccinated
Now calling in all over 56 years, over 50s later this week
Increasing to 1 million doses per day this week (Moderna arrives)
UK, Top nine priority groups
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-care-home-and-healthcare-settings-posters/covid-19-vaccination-first-phase-priority-groups
Group 9, all those over 50
32 million people will be vaccinated by Apr 15
4th April
Over 40s offered vaccination by
31 July
Every person aged over 18
Infections ahead of injections
Changes in cases over past 2 weeks
Mostly powered by British variant
Italy up 50% (54%)
France up 1% (65.3%)
Germany up 9% (46.1%)
Netherlands up 3%
Sweden, up 6%
Estonia, up 58%
Poland, up 63%
Austria, up 63%
Hungary, up 108%
Serbia, up 29%
Greece, up 48%
Spain, down 33%
Portugal, down 49%
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/10/europe-faces-third-wave-lags-behind-vaccinations/
Italy, La Repubblica
Fear has turned into anger and exhaustion
We’re waiting for the vaccines like pioneers in a Western movie, surrounded by Indians, scanning the horizon and waiting for the Seventh Cavalry
Extensive local measures now being taken
Vincenzo De Luca, Governor of Campania
it is clear that we are in the third wave all over Italy, that it is necessary to take exceptional measures
Czech Republic
Could achieve herd immunity
UK, no third wave
https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time
Last week in the UK
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-cases-drop-by-a-third
COVID cases drop by a third
Based on around one million weekly reporters 7,600 recent swab tests
March 12, 2021, cases, + 5,494
Last week, cases, + 8,111
Down 32%
Prevalence, 1 in 613 in the UK currently have symptomatic COVID
UK R = 0.8
England, 0.8
Wales, 0.9
Scotland, 0.8
(Today, UK, 0.6 to 0.8)
European vaccinations progress
Germany
Used less than half of its stocks of AZ
Used a third of stocks of Moderna
3 million over 80 and high risks unvaccinated
France
Used less than three-quarters of their vaccine stocks
Belgium
Has used less than a third of its vaccine stocks
Public reluctance to take AstraZeneca
Bureaucracy and incompetence
UK, vaccination progress
Third of adult population now vaccinated
Now calling in all over 56 years, over 50s later this week
Increasing to 1 million doses per day this week (Moderna arrives)
UK, Top nine priority groups
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-care-home-and-healthcare-settings-posters/covid-19-vaccination-first-phase-priority-groups
Group 9, all those over 50
32 million people will be vaccinated by Apr 15
4th April
Over 40s offered vaccination by
31 July
Every person aged over 18
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