The number of newly registered coronavirus infections across Europe is increasing by the thousands every day. In the western part of the continent, the United Kingdom, in the east, Russia, Romania and Ukraine are struggling the most with the fourth wave of the epidemic. According to a weekly report by the World Health Organization, the situation in Turkey is also rapidly deteriorating.
Globally, statistics show that the number of infected people is rising only in Europe.
Jonathan Van Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, said in a recent statement that pandemic data is deteriorating very rapidly, showing a worse situation in the UK than in most European countries. According to him, this is because many people believe that the danger of the epidemic is over. For his part, he expects us to face the difficult winter months. “The epidemic is not over yet,” he added.
In Romania, most hospitals can no longer accept new patients, doctors are trying to keep people alive in their own cars, take a bottle of oxygen next to cars, that’s the most they can do until one bed is freed.
A woman in front of a hospital told me she had stayed there for a whole day with her mother, who was on an oxygen cylinder, sleeping in their car, and the gas had now run out. She nursed her at home for six days before she convinced them to come. “He’s stubborn, but now he’s sorry he refused to vaccinate himself.”
In Russia, the government has ordered a one-week break, but there are still many infected, and more and more patients need hospital care. Not far from Moscow, a temporary hospital with more than 600 beds and an intensive care unit with a capacity of 20 beds was established in Patriot Park, Kubinka.
