Japan's new crown epidemic rebounds strongly in Europe and the United States, the vortex of the epidemic

Affected by factors such as the spread of the new subtype of the new crown virus Omikon strain and some countries to relax epidemic prevention measures, the new crown epidemic in many places around the world has become severe, and the Japanese epidemic rebound strongly.

The World Health Organization's Global New Crown Epidemic Weekly released on the 27th shows that the world's new crown quilting cases have been increased by more than 6.6 million new crowns in the world as of the 24th, an increase of about 300,000 cases from the previous week. Among them, there were more than 960,000 newly confirmed cases in Japan, the largest in the world; the United States added about 860,000 cases, and 560,000 cases in Germany were ranked second and third.

Since mid -July, the Japanese epidemic has deteriorated rapidly due to the accelerated diffusion of Omiko's strain BA.5 accelerated. According to statistics from the Japanese Broadcasting Association's TV station, Japan added more than 220,000 newly confirmed cases on the 29th, with more than 200,000 diagnosis of more than 200,000 consecutive days; 122 new death cases, more than 100 cases of death in 4 consecutive days.

Due to the surge in infected, the number of infected people in close contact and medical staff also increased, and some hospitals and clinics in Tokyo had difficulty in testing and difficulty in the treatment. According to the statistics of the local government, as of the 27th, Okinawa Prefecture, with the highest use of beds in Tokyo, has reached 85%of Okinawa Prefecture with the highest use rate, and medical resources in many places are becoming increasingly tense.

Affected by the relaxation of epidemic prevention measures and mutant strains, the number of new crowns in Europe and the United States recently increased rapidly. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of the 30th, there were more than 91.3 million new crown cases in the United States, with more than 1.02 million cumulative death cases; French and German accumulated confirmed cases of more than 30 million cases.

Recently, the confirmed cases of the United States have continued to surge, and children's cases have also reproduced the rise. A report released by the American Society and Children's Hospital Association on the 25th shows that as of the week of the 21st, nearly 92,000 new children's diagnosis cases were added in the United States, which was the second week of the number of children's cases rising.

Experts from the European Disease Prevention and Control Center recently warned that Europe is in a new round of epidemic.

Swedish TV station quoted Agelica Baka, a senior expert of the European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 20th, saying that the new round of epidemic was mainly caused by the new subtype BA.4 and BA.5 of the Omikon strain. 80%of European new cases.

Cruggy, director of the European Regional Office of the WHO, issued a statement on the 19th that last week, in Europe, in Europe reported nearly 3 million new cases, accounting for nearly half of the number of new cases in the world. Although the hospitalization rate caused by the new crown during the same period, the admission rate of the intensive care unit is still relatively low. However, as the infection rate of the elderly continues to rise, nearly 3,000 people in Europe died every week for infection with new crown viruses.

Some experts believe that the "lying" in Europe and the United States has increased the risk of new mutant strains. CEO Richard Hacker, CEO of the Popular Disease Prevention Innovation Alliance, recently said that as long as the virus spread is very high, as long as there are unprotected groups, the environment of virus mutation may be possible. The virus will continue to evolve, and the unpredictable virus may cause great popularity at any time.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 30th)

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