New COVID Wave Hits the European Union

A lot of people like to believe that the COVID pandemic is over, and we can’t blame them. The US and many European countries are reporting a lot of infections every day, as we can easily see while taking a look at the stats from worldometers.info.

A senior official at the EU medicines agency says that a new COVID wave is affecting many nations of the Union. He believes that new mutations of the Omicron variant are to blame, according to abcNEWS.

The BA.4 and BA.5 mutations will dominate soon

Marco Cavaleri reveals that the BA.4 and BA.5 mutations are expected to dominate the continent, as they’ll probably replace all the other variants by the end of the current month.

However, Cavalieri brings a solution to the problem, and you’ve probably already guessed it. He stated, as abcNEWS quotes:

As this new wave is unfolding over the EU, it is essential to maintain protection of vulnerable groups and avoid any postponement of vaccination.

If we only look at the number of infections with the coronavirus reported yesterday by several important European countries, we realize that the ongoing pandemic is still far from over. Countries such as France, Germany, and Italy reported over 100,000 infections with COVID each. On the other hand, Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Israel, and Greece reported thousands of infections each on the same day. These terrifying stats are brought by worldometers.info.

The same source reveals that the world has reported a total of over 558.8 million cases of infection and more than 6.3 million deaths caused by the COVID pandemic since it all began. However, there is some good news: over 532.2 million infected people with the coronavirus had already been recovered.