Europe: all-time Covid infection record broken by growing winter superwave

Europe has broken through its all-time high for Covid cases, and is seeing sharp increases in infections right across the continent.  More...

Prediction: European Covid winter wave of 2021 will be the worst wave of the pandemic so far

This isn’t the most difficult prediction we have ever had to make, but there is no doubt that, despite huge vaccination campaigns across the continent, the winter wave now breaking over Europe will be their worst wave of the pandemic so far.  More...

WHO: 500,000 deaths from Covid in Europe this winter

“The current pace of transmission across the 53 countries of the European Region is of grave concern,” said regional WHO head Hans Kluge.  More...

France: Covid-19 cases increase 125% in one week, Delta at 80% – “We have entered a fourth wave”

“We have entered a fourth wave of the virus,” said government spokesman Gabriel Attal on leaving the Council of Ministers on Monday, July 19, explaining that “the dynamics of the epidemic are extremely strong, with a wave faster and a steeper slope than all the previous ones”.  More...