Several European countries – such as France, Great Britain, Italy and Portugal – are now seeing large increases in new cases daily, many even setting new records since The pandemic began as the Omicron variant continued to spread. While there is an upward trend in daily cases, those numbers do not lead to more deaths and hospitalizations, especially when compared to the same period a year ago.
France Reported a record high of 179,807 confirmed new coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period on Tuesday, setting the highest number since the start of the pandemic, French health authorities said.
The latest data broke the previous record of 104,611 new daily cases, set on Saturday.
The increase in the daily figures is a big increase with 176,847 new cases compared to last year’s figures, despite an increase in hospital admissions and ICU occupancy rates, the latest French data shows. saw fewer deaths.
Figures from French authorities show that in the past 24 hours, France recorded 290 coronavirus-related deaths, 484 people hospitalized and 83 people in ICU beds.
A year ago, the country recorded 363 deaths, 25 hospitalizations and 44 people in intensive care.
Meanwhile, England also set a new daily record of Covid-19 cases with 129,471 cases, according to UK government data released on Tuesday.
Elsewhere in Europe, Portugal Portugal’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday it had also recorded the highest number of new daily cases since the start of the pandemic, with a total of 17,172 new coronavirus infections, the Portuguese Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Three.
The highest number of daily infections occurred on January 28, with 16,432 cases reported at the time.
Looking back at last year’s figures, the latest data shows a large increase with 15,079 new cases daily, however, despite the increase in cases, Portugal is showing a large number of deaths. , hospitalization, and lower ICU capacity.
Data shows that currently, Portugal has 936 people hospitalized, with 152 of them in intensive care and 19 deaths, while a year ago Portugal recorded 2,967 imported cases. hospital, with 503 of them in ICU units and a total of 58 deaths.
Italy The country also reported the highest number of new daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic with 78,313 people infected in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry data, according to the country’s Health Ministry. this.
The latest figures show that the upward trend in cases continues after the country reported new case records daily for three consecutive days.
Despite the increase in daily cases, Italy recorded lower numbers of hospitalizations and deaths when compared with figures from a year ago.
On December 28, 2020, Italy recorded 8,585 new infections, 445 Covid-19 related deaths and had 2,565 ICU beds, which represents a significant contrast to the most recent figure of 78,313 cases. new infections, 202 deaths and 1,145 ICUs occupied.
Adjusted: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that France’s ICU capacity and admissions were down compared to last year. The country’s latest data shows that the death toll is down compared to before.
